Hello everybody,
I am trying to get started on the VMWare workstation. In addition to the countless and important reasons that may make me want to learn VMWare, I can easily create development environments and a kind of laboratory to learn or deepen issues related to networking and network programming.
For these reasons, I am trying to learn the basic concepts. In studying the fundamental concepts, I wanted to ask you if my following consideration is correct:
when I create a VM with Network Adapter set to NAT, can I consider it a computer on a LAN whose router can be considered the host computer? While the computers of the physical LAN, to which the host computer also belongs, can they be considered machines located outside the router and therefore as machines located on the Internet? I think that those are the causes, for which a NAT VM can be reached by the computers of the physical LAN only if port mapping rules are set on the host. Could it be a correct interpretation and, therefore, for use and study tests of networking and network programming, a correct assumption?

Thank you, and forgive my mistakes and any trivialities.