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 I use VMWare Fusion on my Mac to run Windows on occasion, and hate having the extra 'vmnet1' and 'vmnet8' interfaces active even when I'm not running VMWare.  It causes all sorts of weird problems with Bonjour when the wrong interfaces start responding to requests.  In addition, VMWare uses the 172.16.0.0/16 network for their private interfaces -- which also happens to be the main network at my office.  This is a bad thing.

I don't need the NAT and Host-Only interfaces, because I use bridged networking. If you are using NAT or Host-Only, you need these interfaces -- although I do recommend switching to bridged networking, if only so your Windows instances will show up on the same network as your Mac and you don't have to deal with port forwarding. Of course, having Windows on the same network as your Mac could be dangerous -- so unless you understand the security risks involved with Windows... you should probably stick with NAT.   more...

I always forget about Bonjour. It's one of those neat little Apple technologies that would really make the world a better place if more systems supported it.

What is it?

In a nutshell, Bonjour lets your computer see all available services on all other computers in your local network. This information doesn't go out on the internet (although there is a thing called Wide Area Bonjour which I haven't looked into much yet).

Example of Bonjour + Apache   more...