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4 (Optional) Select a virtual switch from the drop-down menu.
5 (Optional) Expand Security and select whether to reject, accept, or inherit the Security policy exceptions
from vSwitch.
Option Description
Promiscuous Mode
n
Reject. Placing a guest adapter in promiscuous mode has no eect on
which frames are received by the adapter.
n
Accept. Placing a guest adapter in promiscuous mode causes it to
detect all frames passed on the vSphere distributed switch that are
allowed under the VLAN policy for the port group that the adapter is
connected to.
n
Inherit from vSwitch. Placing a guest adapter in promiscuous mode
causes it to inherit the conguration from the associated virtual switch.
MAC Address Changes
n
Reject. If you set the MAC Address Changes to Reject and the guest
operating system changes the MAC address of the adapter to anything
other than what is in the .vmx conguration le, all inbound frames
are dropped.
If the guest operating system changes back the MAC address to match
the MAC address in the .vmx conguration le, inbound frames are
passed again.
n
Accept. Changing the MAC address from the guest operating system
has the intended eect: frames to the new MAC address are received.
n
Inherit from vSwitch. If you set MAC Address Changes to Inherit
from vSwitch, the MAC address changes to one of the associated
virtual switches.
Forged Transmits
n
Reject. Any outbound frame with a source MAC address that is
dierent from the one set on the adapter are dropped.
n
Accept. No ltering is performed and all outbound frames are passed.
n
Inherit from vSwitch. The outbound frame conguration is inherited
from the associated virtual switch.
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