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How Workstation networking appears on the host machine
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networking support is done on the host machine through a virtual switch or
Ethernet Adapter
that implements several devices:
- VMnet0
-- Used for bridged networking.
- VMnet1
-- Used for host-only networking.
- VMnet2
-- Used for custom networking.
- VMnet3
-- Used for custom networking.
- VMnet4
-- Used for custom networking.
- VMnet5
-- Used for custom networking.
- VMnet6
-- Used for custom networking.
- VMnet7
-- Used for custom networking.
- VMnet8 -- Used for network address translation (NAT) networking.
Each of these devices is logically associated with a virtual Ethernet
Adapter through which
any number of virtual machines and the host may communicate.
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