Hello All,

I am student working on a project based on distributed shared memory. I have been working on this project for almost 11 months and have got is working(except the networking part) .

Since the Operating system is a older, I decided to use VMWARE( as the old hardware was hard to get and were costly as well). The entire project is ready except the Networking part as my host operating systems (i.e FREEBSD 2.2.7) are not able to communicate over TCP/IP.

Host Operating system:- WIndows XP SP2

Guest operating system :- FreeBSD 2.2.7 ( cant change the Guest OS as the program is based on this kernel)

Vmware version:- Vmware server 1.0.3 ( Can be changed to a more FREEBSD compatible version)

Finding :- Network card not detected on freebsd 2.2.7 but if i use 2.2.8 the nework card is detected and the guest os communicate as well.

Experts please suggest if i can get the NIC working on Freebsd 2.2.7 if yes on what version of vmware or any workaround that we have for this problem.

Also if there is any alternate method that can be used to communicate between two FreeBSD VM using TCP/IP protocol