Hi jpsider,

Borris' host has IPv4 Address 192.168.111.130/24 and his Linux Guest has 192.168.111.81/24. That's the same subnet and host and guest are bridged by VMware. Correct me if I overlooked something, but there shouldn't be any routing involved. The routing table on the host should look like this:
C:\Users\Borris>netstat -rn
...
IPv4 Route Table
===========================================================================
Active Routes:
Network Destination        Netmask          Gateway       Interface  Metric
          0.0.0.0          0.0.0.0    192.168.111.1  192.168.111.130     10
...
The guest should look almost the same, except it has 192.168.111.81 as Interface. Since the gateway is correct, host as well as guest can communicate correctly to the rest of the world as Borris stated 20.01.2017 08:14.