Hi all, new to the forums, pleasure to meet you!
I'm setting up a VMware player server. I have an internal IP in my local network of 10.1.1.30 and a public IP address of lets say 30.30.30.30
when I bridge the connection to my linux VM server and manually configure my internal IP (on linux using ifconfig eth0 10.1.1.30) I am able to ping the local internal address, but not the external address of 30.30.30.30
however if I change that 10.1.1.30 to my host machine (my windows XP machine, not the VM) the external IP 30.30.30.30 becomes pingable.
What gives?
My current setup, I have a Windows XP machine of IP address of 10.1.1.29 and a Linux VM (Ubuntu based) of IP 10.1.1.30. The internal IP 10.1.1.30 is supposed to be linked to the external IP of 30.30.30.30 and can only be actually done on the host machine (at the moment), not the VM, it just can't make that connection.
And in the VM settings, under Network Adapter, the settings are set to 'Bridged' so that I can make the VM exist in the same subnet as the host machine, the 10.1.1.x subnet.
Do I do NAT, do I do Bridged? come on folks, a point in the right direction, I've been at it for 3 days now.