i know nothing of VMware but have you tried changing the mac address on
the 350 card to match the one that vmware is going to use?...

--Abaddon

"Jenkins, John" wrote:
>
> I believe that your explanation is actually more accurate than mine. It's
> not NAT going on, at layer 3, but instead the MAC address is indeed being
> tunneled. I've been trying to find a way to make all of the traffic appear
> to be coming from the MAC address of the Aironet, but have been
> unsuccessful.
>
> Thanks for the response,
>
> John Jenkins
> Senior Network Engineer
> NeuStar, Inc.
> 571-434-5623
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Veneskey [mailto:jvenecisco.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 1:13 PM
> To: Jenkins, John
> Cc: 'aironetcsl.cse.ucsc.edu'
> Subject: Re: [Aironet] Aironet 350 and VMWare running on Linux
>
> If I understand this correctly - you are saying that the Aironet adapter is
> basically "tunneling" VMWare's psuedo network device which has a MAC
> different
> than the Aironet adapter?
>
> If so - the Access Point will not forward packets addressed to the pseudo
> network device from the wire to the wireless client card - since the MAC
> of the psuedo adapter is not listed in it's association table as one of
> its children.
>
> Jim
>
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 11:50:50AM -0600, Jenkins, John wrote:
> >
> > I currently have several users (including myself) who run VMWare on top of
> > Red Hat Linux. I've had no trouble getting the LAN adapters to work with
> > the Linux, but have been unable to get Windows 2000 running in VMWare on
> top
> > of the Linux to access the network. I believe the issue is that VMWare
> > NAT's the address, but I'm not sure how to resolve this. Has anyone else
> > run into this scenario?
> >
> > John Jenkins
> > Senior Network Engineer
> > NeuStar, Inc.
> >
> >
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