Just curious, what is the Make, Model and Version of the Router you're using?

Since your using a Router you do not need to use NAT on the VM's Network. Just set the VM's Network to Bridged and then configure the NIC at the OS Level using an IP Address that is outside the Scope of the Router's DHCP Server IP Address Pool while supplying the appropriate Subnet Mask, Gateway and DNS Server(s) IP Addresses as well.

Thanks a lot, that looks perfect! There are lot of hidden features in the config files

Hi Folks,

This doesn't seem to work for me - I am on Ubuntu 8.10 (guest) and VMWare Fusion 2 (host). The guest keeps getting a new IP address and not the static one that I specified in the dhcp.conf file. This is what my dhcp.conf file looks like:

allow unknown-clients;
default-lease-time 1800; # 30 minutes
max-lease-time 7200; # 2 hours

subnet 172.16.55.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 172.16.55.128 172.16.55.254;
option broadcast-address 172.16.55.255;
option domain-name-servers 172.16.55.2;
option netbios-name-servers 172.16.55.2;
option domain-name "localdomain";
option routers 172.16.55.2;
}

host Ubuntu {
hardware ethernet 00:0c:29:a6:7e:77;
fixed-address 172.168.55.137;
}

I've double checked the value of the MAC address. I've also tried deleting the existing leases under /var/db/ on host and /var/lib/dhcp3/ on guest

For now I've given a static value to the guest manually. What could I be doing wrong?

Thanks,
Deepak

Ouch, that was a stupid mistake on my part. Thanks for replying. I fixed the typo and it works like a charm now.