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VMWARE Fusion 10.1.6 "NAT Option i.e. Shared with my MAC" is not working

Hello Team,

I am trying figure out this problem from past 3 days, but still I am not able to find any solution.I am having a Firewall deployed in VMware in which if I select Network adapter as "Share with  my MAC " or any other then also some how it is taking IP address range from Host only adapter and also Internet is not working.Please find below configuration for same and I did tried changing to other options which are available in Network adapter setting but still it was taking IP address from Host only adapter range VMNET1.

It was working earlier and without any changes suddenly it has been stopped.I have done couple of troubleshooting as per below

  • I have tried to re-install that Firewall Image again
  • I have tried to Restart machine, Vmware Fusion but still it doesn't work

Screen Shot 2020-05-08 at 3.33.15 PM.png

VMnet adapter configuration as per below :-

vmnet1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500

  ether 00:50:56:c0:00:01

  inet 192.168.99.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.99.255

vmnet8: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500

  ether 00:50:56:c0:00:08

  inet 172.16.251.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.16.251.255

On my Firewall, I am getting range from VMNET1 only which should be from VMnet8 to make Internet work

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cat /Library/Preferences/VMware\ Fusion/networking

VERSION=1,0

answer VNET_10_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER no

answer VNET_1_DHCP yes

answer VNET_1_DHCP_CFG_HASH 4C57BFD4C393A1D672416035F09D44

answer VNET_1_HOSTONLY_NETMASK 255.255.255.0

answer VNET_1_HOSTONLY_SUBNET 192.168.99.0

answer VNET_1_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER yes

answer VNET_2_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER no

answer VNET_3_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER no

answer VNET_4_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER no

answer VNET_5_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER no

answer VNET_6_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER no

answer VNET_7_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER no

answer VNET_8_DHCP yes

answer VNET_8_DHCP_CFG_HASH 0864E33156C7C9AC191D6E509AC867

answer VNET_8_HOSTONLY_NETMASK 255.255.255.0

answer VNET_8_HOSTONLY_SUBNET 172.16.251.0

answer VNET_8_NAT yes

answer VNET_8_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER yes

answer VNET_9_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER no

add_bridge_mapping en0 2

It would be great if some expert can help me out and if required anything else I can definitely share it

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