VMware bridged networking not working

Edweirdo

I have VMware workstation and VMware Server installed on a few different computers (1 workstation, 3 servers) and it seems that recently my bridged networking stopped working. I'm not sure what got updated because it seems that whatever the change was didn't take affect until I rebooted the systems.

The problem is that NAT works fine. Bridged almost works. When a VM is set up for bridged networking and I try to navigate to a web site the dns look up is performed and then the browser says it contacted the site but I never get a response.

My workstation is unstable buy my servers are stable. They are all up to date. Some of the servers are running kernel-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 and some are on kernel-2.6.20-gentoo-r8. The unstable workstation is on 2.6.21-gentoo-r3.

VMware-server 1.0.3.
VMware-workstation 5.5.4

Any thoughts or help would be appreciated.
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Spectre256 · n00b Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 30

This sounds like a simple network configuration issue on the virtual host behind the bridged network. I would check the fairly obvious things: make sure it has a valid IP address, DNS server address, and default route. Also try connecting to computers by IP address or to local machines to help narrow down the cause.

h0mer`- · Apprentice Joined: 02 Aug 2004 Posts: 215

The reason could be that your network interface is eth1 and not eth0 when you launch your image in bridged mode.

Edweirdo · Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 8:29 pm Post subject:

One server is using eth1 (which is the interface connected to the network) but another is using eth0 (which is the interface connected to the network). I tried using an ip address in my browser using bridged and that doesn't seem to work either. I can ping an IP address, though.

(My favorite trouble shooting quote:) Everything was configured and working until it stopped working. I didn't change any configurations before it stopped working. Of course, I changed things, I update my system everyday. I'm sure something minor changed and I just didn't notice.

I re-emerged vmware-modules and reconfigured vmware (with vmware-config.pl) but nothing seems to have an affect.
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Edweirdo · Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 4:04 pm Post subject:

I added the useflag -ipv6 and did a newuse emerge but that didn't help. I checked to make sure ipv6 was off in the kernel and it is. I installed the real VMware-server (not the ebuild) using the newest vmware-any-any (110) and it still didn't fix anything.

Looks like I'm going to have to install Red Hat (yuk).
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Edweirdo · Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 5:56 pm Post subject:

Red Hat works. Ubuntu works. Gentoo does not work.
I don't want to use Red Hat. I don't want to use Ubuntu. I want to use Gentoo.
Doesn't anyone have any ideas?
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euphorium · n00b Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 14

In case this helps anyone.

I ran into this problem when I migrated a web server image to a windows server. I came here looking for a solution and realized that the forementioned statement about using eth1 was the issue I had here with the bridge.

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