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pittperson
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Another Destination Host Unreachable Thread

For the last five days I've searched and searched for a solution to this problem as it seems simple, but I cannot find my solution.  I cannot ping my gateway from my VMs inside ESXi 5.5 nor can I get out to the internet from them.  Here is my setup...

-Ubuntu 14.04 running Workstation 10

-- ESXi 5.5 VM inside Workstation 10, Network adapter is bridged, vSwitch0 security is set to accept promiscuous mode

--- Windows 7 VM inside ESXi 5.5, Windows firewall is disabled.

- The ESXi 5.5 VM gets an IP address from my router (ASUS AC68R) via DHCP (192.168.1.47)

- The Windows 7 VM also gets an IP address from my router via DHCP (192.168.1.112)

- The windows 7 VM can ping the ESXi VM and the ESXi VM can ping the windows 7 VM

- Gateway IP address is the IP address of my router, 192.168.1.1

- Subnet masks are the same across the board, 255.255.255.0

So, long story short, VMs inside ESX can ping each other, but cannot ping anything outside of ESX.  I find this odd considering they are getting IP addresses from the router which is outside of ESX, but it appears that it is a configuration issue with my router that is blocking things.  If any other info will help with diagnosing this, let me know and I'll gather it and post it.

Thanks.

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JF_ID
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Did you resolve your issue ?

I'm interrested to know your solution, i get the same problem in my environnement.

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