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
As per the long recent thead, only ONE machine can talk directly to the
cable modem. This is true whether the machines are physical machines
you can hit with a hammer or virtual machines; vmware makes a machine
which is quite indistinguishable to software from a physical machine, so
all the same
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 enabl
