I wonder whether anybody can help me with this:
I run Windows Vista as the host with VMware Workstation 6 and Red Hat Linux 3.0 as guest OS. My host OS is connected to the Internet through a DSL connection via it's WLAN interface.
I've assigned a static IP address to VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter for VMnet1: 192.168.15.5 / 255.255.255.0 and a DNS server address of 62.220.18.8 which is my ISP's DNS server.
I've configured the Linux VM's Ethernet to use Custom settings and use VMnet1 for Host-only networking.
I've configured eth0 in the guest OS to use IP address 192.168.15.2 / 255.255.255.0.
In /etc/sysconfig/network I've got:
GATEWAY="192.168.2.5"
In /etc/resolv.conf I've got:
nameserver 62.220.18.8
So that's my configuration.
I want the guest OS to be able to resolve domain names and access the internet without changing the VMnet1 Host-only setting.
What do I have to do? I am not a Linux nor a networking pro so I'd appreciate if anybody could provide me with steps to troubleshoot/set up correctly.
Maybe I gotta add routes or anything?
Your help is greatly appreciated.
Last but not least here is the netstat -rn output:
\[root@vgprottmann etc]# netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
192.168.15.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 192.168.15.5 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0