LAN communication not working for Guest RHEL8 machine over Bridged Connection

cmccloskey45 — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 13:47:28 GMT

I have recently deployed VMware Workstation Pro 16 and have been struggling with the same issue for hours. In short, I am trying to allow a device on a my home LAN to communicate with a guest RHEL8 virtual machine using a distinct IP (not NAT). I would love some points in the right direction or help eliminating some things as I don't know if this is an issue with my home router, the Virtual Network, or the RHEL VM itself. Below is my setup

PC1: 192.168.0.2:

Connected to Home Router/Gateway over Ethernet

PC2: 192.168.0.27

Connected to Home Router/Gateway over Ethernet
Running VMware Workstation 16
- RHEL8 virtual machine with bridged connection to PC2's Ethernet

Running "VM1": 192.168.0.100 (Statically Configured)

My testing:

From PC1, I can ping PC2 and receive a reply
From PC1, when I ping VM1, I can see (through a Wireshark capture running on PC2) that VM1 replies, but PC1 never receives it and the Ping Request results in "Request Timed Out" on PC1
From PC2 (where VM1 resides), I am unable to ping VM1 and receive "Destination host unreachable" where the reply comes from PC2's IP
From VM1, I am unable to ping neither the Default Gateway (192.168.0.1) nor PC1 or PC2
From VM1, I am able to get to the Internet fine. (i.e. running wget https://google.com results in a 200 OK)

Any help or pointers would be much appreciated!

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