I have recently deployed VMware Workstation Pro 16 and have been struggling with the same issue for hours.  In short, I am trying to allow a device on a my home LAN to communicate with a guest RHEL8 virtual machine using a distinct IP (not NAT).  I would love some points in the right direction or help eliminating some things as I don't know if this is an issue with my home router, the Virtual Network, or the RHEL VM itself. Below is my setup

PC1: 192.168.0.2:

• Connected to Home Router/Gateway over Ethernet

PC2: 192.168.0.27

• Connected to Home Router/Gateway over Ethernet
• Running VMware Workstation 16
  • RHEL8 virtual machine with bridged connection to PC2's Ethernet
• Running "VM1": 192.168.0.100 (Statically Configured)

My testing:

• From PC1, I can ping PC2 and receive a reply
• From PC1, when I ping VM1, I can see (through a Wireshark capture running on PC2) that VM1 replies, but PC1 never receives it and the Ping Request results in "Request Timed Out" on PC1
• From PC2 (where VM1 resides), I am unable to ping VM1 and receive "Destination host unreachable" where the reply comes from PC2's IP
• From VM1, I am unable to ping neither the Default Gateway (192.168.0.1) nor PC1 or PC2

• From VM1, I am able to get to the Internet fine.  (i.e. running wget https://google.com results in a 200 OK)

Any help or pointers would be much appreciated!