VMWare Workstation Player/Pro Installation Guide: Difference between revisions

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The Allegro Virtual Edition has by default 2 network interfaces. The first port is used for Management, the second is used as capture port. The Allegro Virtual Edition will analyze all traffic received by this network port.
The Allegro Virtual Edition has by default 2 network interfaces. The first port is used for Management, the second is used as capture port. The Allegro Virtual Edition will analyze all traffic received by this network port.


Please enable the promiscuous mode for the vwsitch to allow the Allegro Virtual Edition to monitor all packets from on a VMWare vswitch.
Please enable the promiscuous mode for the second port if you would like to analyze all incoming packets. As of now, this configuration cannot be done in the VMWare Workstation GUI and it does not work for all physical interfaces.


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Please navigate to your directory of the VMWare ( by default: Documents\Virtual Machines ) and Edit the vmx file. There add the line: "ethernet1.noPromisc = "FALSE"
 
[[File:Workstation player promisc mode.png|600px]]


== Packet ring buffer and pcap storage ==
== Packet ring buffer and pcap storage ==
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