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This keeps dhcpd from probing for all available network interfaces.
If the above solutions do not work for your DHCP server program, then it likely is old.
You can try upgrading to a more current version such as the DHCP software available
from the ISC Web site at www.isc.org.
DHCP and Dynamic Domain Name Service (DDNS)
DHCP can be used to hand out IP addresses as well as other information, such as the
identity of a host running a name server and the nearest router or gateway. The DHCP
server in GSX Server does not provide a means to dynamically establish a relationship
between the IP address it assigns and a client’s name (that is, to update a DNS server
using DDNS).
If you want to use names to communicate with other virtual machines, you must
either edit the DHCP configuration file for VMnet1
(/etc/vmware/vmnet1.conf) or use IP addresses that are statically bound to a
host name. Editing the DHCP server configuration file requires information that is best
obtained directly from the DHCP server documentation. Consult the manual pages
dhcpd(8) and dhcpd.conf(8).
Setting Up a Second Bridged Network Interface on a Linux Host
If you have two Ethernet adapters installed on your host computer, connected to two
different networks, you may want your virtual machines on that host computer to
bridge to both Ethernet adapters so the virtual machines can access either or both
physical networks.
When you install GSX Server on a host computer with multiple Ethernet adapters, you
have the option of configuring more than one bridged network. You can also
configure additional bridged networks at any time by rerunning vmware-
config.pl.
1. On the host computer, become root (su -) and run the GSX Server
configuration program.
vmware-config.pl
Caution: In order to configure GSX Server correctly, the vmware-config.pl
configuration program requires all virtual machines to be shut down. The
program shuts down any running virtual machines automatically.
2. If you have more than one physical Ethernet adapter, one of the prompts you
see is similar to this:
The following bridged networks have been defined:
. vmnet0 is bridged to eth0