Topic: Only one physical ethernet card

[benmayim]

If I only have one physical ethernet card in my computer running Winxp with VMware workstation 6 installed, and I install SME7.1 server in a virtual machine, is it possible to run the SME server as both gateway, and server, or do I have to have two physical ethernet cards, or can I use my one physical ethernet card and a vmware virtual ethernet card for the other one?

[cactus]

If I only have one physical ethernet card in my computer running Winxp with VMware workstation 6 installed, and I install SME7.1 server, is it possible to run the SME server as both gateway, and server, or do I have to have two physical ethernet cards, or can I use my one physical ethernet card and a vmware virtual ethernet card for the other one?

AFAIK my VMWare knowledge goes you do not need to have multiple network interfaces to create virtual network cards for you virtual server, you will have to tweak your guest (main) os to have multiple types (bridges) defined if I remember correctly. As I am not in the office I have no access to my virtual servers and hardware to check it for you.

[Franco]

Cactus is correct, for the VMWare you can have as many as you want virtual interfaces, these will show on your guest OS.

[Elliott]

I'm wondering where you've gotten with this... And more importantly, if anyone is running SME 7.x this was as a server/gateway, are there any major slowdowns seeing as how the single NIC is being used in so many instances?

I would assume that the client machine is also going through the SME as a firewall so that means the NIC is the clients path into the VM_SME and it's also the VM_SME's path to the firewalled LAN as well as the public net or gateway?

How do other client's that use the VM_SME as their gateway seem to be running? What sort of network are you running? I was considering doing something like this on a home network that would have 5-6 total clients to the VM_SME machine...

Interesting.

[cactus]

I'm wondering where you've gotten with this... And more importantly, if anyone is running SME 7.x this was as a server/gateway, are there any major slowdowns seeing as how the single NIC is being used in so many instances?

I would assume that the client machine is also going through the SME as a firewall so that means the NIC is the clients path into the VM_SME and it's also the VM_SME's path to the firewalled LAN as well as the public net or gateway?

How do other client's that use the VM_SME as their gateway seem to be running? What sort of network are you running? I was considering doing something like this on a home network that would have 5-6 total clients to the VM_SME machine...

Interesting.

I would not bother with trying to do so, even in a small home office other then for testing purposes... NIC's are not that expensive (anymore) so I would insert a second one in the VMWare server and configure SME Server to use one of them for it's WAN and the other for it's LAN site. Access to the VMWare server is best granted to the SME Server's LAN side (as security might become a concern).