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Networking Question

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

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