Mark Jeffreys
Bit poster
Howdy:
I was asked to find out about this, and thought it would be easy to answer, but searching the docs & forums wasn't successful. We have been testing Parallels 3 (XP VMs on Mac OS X Tiger & Leopard) with an eye to hopefully rolling it out department-wide, but have run into a roadblock. Our engineering folks have instituted what they call "Network Access Controls" and one result of this is that only one IP can be run over a given Ethernet port, which evidently prevents running Parallels, at least the way it is configured currently here.
This is not really my area of expertise, but I was asked if, on the Mac Pro, it could be configured so that the Mac used one of the two built-in Ethernet connections and XP used the other. Then they could be plugged into different ports, bypassing the restriction. My initial reaction was "probably not" because I believe that on the Mac side only one interface can be active at a time (except for link aggregation). But since I'm not a network expert and know little about Parallels, I agreed to verify this. (Note that using Ethernet for one and a wireless link for the other is also not possible, since wireless networking is also banned for security reasons.)
Can anyone give me a definitive answer as to whether this is possible?
Thanks!
I was asked to find out about this, and thought it would be easy to answer, but searching the docs & forums wasn't successful. We have been testing Parallels 3 (XP VMs on Mac OS X Tiger & Leopard) with an eye to hopefully rolling it out department-wide, but have run into a roadblock. Our engineering folks have instituted what they call "Network Access Controls" and one result of this is that only one IP can be run over a given Ethernet port, which evidently prevents running Parallels, at least the way it is configured currently here.
This is not really my area of expertise, but I was asked if, on the Mac Pro, it could be configured so that the Mac used one of the two built-in Ethernet connections and XP used the other. Then they could be plugged into different ports, bypassing the restriction. My initial reaction was "probably not" because I believe that on the Mac side only one interface can be active at a time (except for link aggregation). But since I'm not a network expert and know little about Parallels, I agreed to verify this. (Note that using Ethernet for one and a wireless link for the other is also not possible, since wireless networking is also banned for security reasons.)
Can anyone give me a definitive answer as to whether this is possible?
Thanks!