Cannot ping host from guest os

[nimbus99]

Hi

I cannot ping my host from my guest, allthough my guest can ping host

and both can access router/intenet fine. I have disabled NAT and DHCP

and configured VMNET0 to bridge to my guests wireless network card. All

other vmnets are disabled.

Any idea why Torres cant ping home?

Thanks

Host IP: 192.168.1

Guest IP: 192.168.2

Router IP: 192.168.10

DHCP and NAT disabled in VMWARE

DHCP Disabled on the Router

Guest IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : torres

Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :

Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown

IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : VMware Accelerated AMD PCNet Adapter

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0C-29-29-B3-5E

DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No

IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.2

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.10

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 194.125.2.241

Host IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : HOME

Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :

Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown

IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Networ

k Connection

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1C-BF-C3-E9-61

Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No

IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.10

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 194.125.2.241

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Marvell Yukon 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Eth

ernet Controller

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1D-09-39-11-1E

[nimbus99]

On further investigation, I can ping home using the ip address but not the host name. I suppose this points to name resolution issue?

Any ideas?

[louyo]

You are relying on one of the machines becoming the master browser and handling name resolution.

Since you are using static IP addresses, I would recommend putting the host name and IP addresses in the hosts file, more reliable.

/etc/hosts for Linux, \Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

Lou

[AWo]

You can use "nslookup" on any host connecting to the DNS server and check if there's an address record entry for your host as you said that pinging the IP address works.

AWo

VCP / VMware vEXPERT 2009