further VMWoes

[Derek Atkins]

Configure host-only to use DHCP.  It works great.  You may need to
reconfigure vmware (via a reinstall, perhaps) to turn on this feature.

-derek

Brian Conway <dogbert at clue4all.net> writes:

> 
> > As for getting host-only w/ masquerade working, that's the setting
> > that I use.  There are two steps:
> > 	1) Get host-only networking working between Linux and VMWare.
> 
> So says the help pages (with not too many details, of course).  With
> bridged networking, the guest OS (10.0.0.130) can get to both the vmnet
> address (10.0.0.2) and the eth0 (10.0.0.1) of the host, as well as outside
> hosts (10.0.0.4).  With host-only, the guest OS with the same ip info can
> neither see the vmnet address or the eth0 of the host.  Any ideas on how
> exactly I should have the various ip/netmask info set up?  A working
> example perhaps?
> 
> > 	2) Get IP Masquerade working.
> 
> Already working.
> 
> I've checked the vmware newsgroups on most of this stuff, but they seem to
> be only a little more helpful than the vague-ish documenation.
> 
> -b
> 
> 

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