Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3442 mails)

[Clayton Cornell <c.cornell@xxxxxxxxx>]

A quick run down of the setup before I get to the problem:
	- SuSE7.3 on AMD 1GHz, 256MB
	- Using PMFirewall and masquerading turned on
	- The local network is 2 NICs
		- eth0 to the web
		- eth1 to 192.168.0.1 (on local hub)
The local hub has only one other PC connected (with Win98).  IP forwarding 
works fine on this client system (using IP 192.168.0.2) - I can use the 
internet etc from the client... so no problems there.

I installed VMWare Express a couple of days ago, and installed Win98 into it. 
 I config'ed it virtually the same as the working client, assigning it 
192.168.0.3, and setting the gateway to 192.168.0.1.  From VMWare (in a DOS 
box) I can ping the host IP on eth1 at 192.168.0.1.  I can ping from the host 
to the VMWare client too.  So, that tells me there is some sort of 
communication happening there.

It fails though if I try to ping the IP of eth0, or any external web IP.

I have tried various things to track down the problem:

  - disconnecting the working client, setting the IP to 192.168.0.2 (the 
confirmed working IP from the working client) to check if I mistakenly set 
the firewall to only masquerade the one IP.  No difference, still get 
timeouts on the VMware side if I try to ping the external world.

  - set the VMWare ethernet to Host-only (suggested on the VMware newsgroup). 
 I get nothing then.... I cannot even ping the local network then.  It only 
works in Bridged mode.

Any ideas or suggestions here?  What might have I missed?

Clayton