You only have one ip address through your cable modem. Therefore, you
can't use 2 ip addresses on your machine that are in the same ip
addressing scheme as the cable modem ip address.
Enable masquerading, and give yourself a 10.0.0.x or a 172.16.1.x or a
192.168.1.x address pool. Then enable IPV4 forwarding and IP
masquerading. You will be using your linux box as a firewall/NAT
translator, and it should allow you to surf the net from both vmware and
linux simultaneously.
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On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Daniel Woods wrote:
>
> I am not getting much help on this from vmware folks. Although
> someone here might have run into the same problem given all this
> talk with private network and IP Masq.
>
> I have VMware working fine at work such that I can open up a
> linux or win9x guest OS and either of them *and* the host can
> access network functions (telnet, browser). This is most likely
> because DHCP allows me to have more than one IP assigned.
>
> However at home with my cable modem ISP only allowing *one* IP,
> it seems that when I use a guest OS, the host is frozen out
> of any network ability... and vice versa. The cable modem is
> currently hooked up directly to my PC with no IP masquing.
> The guest does appear to receive a new DHCP generated IP from
> the ISP which is different than that of the host.
>
> Is the problem indeed because of the ISP's DHCP allocation.
> Is there not a way for me to make the guest OS be given private
> IP numbers ? Once I were to setup IP masquing, would this then
> allow VMware to generate private IPs for the guest OS as well ?
>
> Thanks... Dan.
>
