[Ti] another VPC nightmare brewing

[Chris and Cheryl]

On Wednesday, April 2, 2003, at 07:52 PM, b wrote:
> llo,
>
> It's me, the happy Apple user, VPC guinea pig. I upgraded fromVPC 
> 5.0.4 to VPC 6, to 6.0.1, loaded the additions, booted my Win2kPro PC, 
> closed it, booted my XP Pro image..... same deal, the "Shared Network" 
> prefs in both configs, are showing a choice between 'Virtual Switch" 
> and "Shared Network"... neither of which is relevant or will allow my 
> apps to connect over TCP/IP to the Net.

I will depend on your network setup.  Shared Networking in VPC 6 uses 
NAT and DHCP for your guest operating system to get an IP address and 
get it routed to the outside world.  It appears to me that it only 
works with a specific private Class B netblock.  I am using the 
"virtual switch" since our entire network uses static ip addresses, and 
that was the easy one for me to set up.
--
Chris