Re: Vmware Tools and pfSense

FWIW, while the lnc device reports as 10Mbit, it'll actually do more. 
It's still slower than either the vmware tools driver or the e1000
interface, but it's definitely faster than 10Mbit.

--Bill

On 4/24/06, masotti@xxxxxxxxx <masotti@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
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