[PLUG] Vmware 2 with Ubuntu 9.1

[Daniel Herrington]

All,

Is anyone running ubuntu 9.1 as a vmware host? I'm noticing in my test 
environment that I can't ping or ssh to any of my NAT machines. I have 
routes to the correct vmnet interface, but for some reason all the 
packets get lost.

vmnet3 on the host is configured as 192.168.0.1
guest is 192.168.0.134

host route shows:
192.168.0.0   *   255.255.255.0   U   0   0    0 vmnet3

guest route shows:
192.168.0.0   *   255.255.255.0   U   0   0    0 eth0
default   192.168.0.2   0.0.0.0     UG   0   0   0 eth0

my guest can ping 192.168.0.2 without problems, but can't ping 
192.168.0.1. Both ip addresses are the host machine.

The host machine can ping 192.168.0.1, but not 192.168.0.2.

I can ssh from the guest into the host, although I can't go in the 
reverse direction.

I'm guessing there's something missing in the routing table, but I 
compared the route outputs on my Ubuntu 8.1 Vmware server 2 hosts and 
they appear the same. Does anyone have any idea where I can begin 
looking to find the cause?

thanks,
Dan H.

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Daniel B. Herrington
Director of Field Services
Robert Mark Technologies
dherrington at robertmarktechnologies.com
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