VMware 4 User Manual page 198

VMware Workstation 4 User's Manual
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5. To designate a physical Ethernet adapter to be used for bridged networking on
virtual switches named VMnet2–VMnet7, click the Host Virtual Network
Mapping tab. Choose an adapter from the drop-down list beside the name of
the virtual switch you want to use.
Caution: Be careful when you change the bridged adapter mappings. If you re-
assign a physical Ethernet adapter to a different virtual network, any virtual
machine using the original network loses its network connectivity via that
network. You must then change the setting for each affected virtual machine's
network adapter individually. This can be especially troublesome if your host has
only one physical Ethernet adapter and you reassign it to a VMnet other than
VMnet0; even though the VMnet still appears to be bridged to an automatically
chosen adapter, the only adapter it can use has been assigned to another VMnet.
6. To make changes to the subnet or the DHCP settings for a virtual network, click
the button on the right that corresponds to the virtual network you want to
configure, then choose Subnet or DHCP.
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