I am working on getting NetApp's ONTAP (based on FreeBSD) simulator up and running on my laptop, but I am at a loss on the networking side since my background is mostly server/storage. Please be patient with my noob-level questions, I'm not making much progress getting this on my own. I'm running the 8.0 simulator on vmplayer with Windows 7 for my base OS, and set up the vmplayer NICs as:
1: Host-only
2: Host-only
3: Bridged
4: NAT
I can't figure out how to access my simulator from the host OS, or how to get the guest OS on the network. Let's say my host OS is at 192.168.2.2, which of the 4 NIC's should have addresses in that space? Shouldn't there be a network set up between my host and guest OS, and if so what should I set for the network config of those NICs? What will that look like when I do an IPconfig on the host OS?
Help much appreciated!
hello,
Not knowing exactly what you are trying to achieve with your Ontap server, I'll do my best to answer your question.
Here you have 4 cards configured (why so many?)
1 bridged: you can consider your bridged card as being on the same network as your host card. So if configured as dhcp client and a dhcp server is available, it should obtain an IP address of 192.168.2.x. where x is some address given by the dhcp server.
1 nat: a nat card is the equivalent of having multiple devices connected to one of those home router. You talk to your local network when doing local stuff. When accessing the internet, your router translate your internal IP address and uses the external IP (WAN) address of your router to send your request to the Internet. When an answer comes back, the reverse translation is done. In the case of VM, the WAN address is your host address.
2 host-only: They are normally used to connect to other VM on the same network or the host.
The first thing I don`t like about your setup is having both 1 bridged and 1 NAT at the same time. When properly configured both will have an IP and a default gateway and may lead to some weird issues because both have route outside the network. I would probably disable the NAT one.
Is there a network between my guest and host, well currently you have many networks:
bridged
VMNET1 for Host only
VMNET8 for NAT.
Hope this give you a starting point.
Definitely very helpful! Here's where I'm stumped.
I've disabled all but NIC1 and assigned a static IP to that NIC. The IP I assigned is on the same network as my host's, 192.168.2.x, netmask 255.255.255.0
I got this far before, and the issue I ran into is this: I can ping my guest OS, but not telnet to it. Conversely, my guest OS cannot ping my host OS.
Thoughts?
I get the same results using NIC3: host can ping guest, guest can't ping host, and host can't telnet to guest.
On your guest, if you run netstat -a, you must have port 23 or telnet in listening mode. Otherwise, it won't work. Not being a unix person, I would not know what process to check using ps, but if you ps -al | grep telnet, you may get something. My belief is that the process is not working.
As fas as pinging the host, if you run arp -a, do you have a MAC Address for the host IP address?