Re: Vmware Tools and pfSense

Hi,

Download perl package from FreeBSD's FTP site:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.0-release/
and install it with pkg_add commang.
If there are any dependencies, you'll have to download and install them as well.

Hope that helps,
Dmitry

Quoting masotti@xxxxxxxxx:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm planning to get pfSense running inside vmware, so to have routing and
> firewall functions within the hosts attached to the internal virtual
> switches.
> However, as far as I got to know, 10 Mbps functionality only would be
> obtainable out of the interfaces of the virtual machines, unless Vmware Tools
> are properly installed into the guest operating system, along with the
> benefit of 100 Mbps speed.  For such reason, I thought to add Vmware Tools to
> the VM hosting the pfSense software but, unfortunately, the pfSense
> installation image does not come with a suitable perl interpreter, as
> required by the Vmware Tools installation process.
> 
> 
> Thank you for any hint on this subject, pfSense installation image shipped in
> the future with a perl interpreter bundled altogether perhaps?
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Marco Masotti
> 
> 
>