VMWare help; bridged networking

[Hybrid_theory]

I have a SuSE host built on an IBM chassis. It has a bond interface for failover. It has an IP address of 10.10.138.196. SM 255.255.255.128. DG 10.10.138.129. I can ping this machine no problem. On this I have a virtual machine of SuSE. It has the same mask and gateway with an IP of 10.10.138.197. It can ping the host (196) and the host can ping it. However, it cannot ping the default gateway .129. It recieves an unreachable message from it's own virtual interface. I have setup bridged networking from the start with no luck.

I tried changing the DG on the guest to .196. I setup default routes, and specific routes to 10.10.138.129 on both the guest and the host with no luck. I have spoken to some collegues and they're not sure either. I need this available so it can be used for a variety of apps.

I posted on Vmware forums, no useful assistance yet. THought I'd try my favourite boards.

 

[mrhuggles]

sounds like an NAT issue, like the router to modem thingy about getting to the modem interface. if thats the case then i think youd need to make a second bridge

 

[Hybrid_theory]

sounds like an NAT issue, like the router to modem thingy about getting to the modem interface. if thats the case then i think youd need to make a second bridge

It's not supposed to use NAT, there is a NAT mode. I use that and I can communicate with a gateway. But then I can't reach the VM from the outside.

 

[mrhuggles]

to bridge between the client and host it should need to have a NAT somewhere right?

 

[Hybrid_theory]

to bridge between the client and host it should need to have a NAT somewhere right?

I'm not sure the exact details into how bridged works. For NAT or Host Only Mode, It creates a virtual NIC for your virtual machines to connect to. In Bridged it tries to go right to the physical NIC so the machine can be usable on the network.

 

[Disparia]

You're right. Bridge assigns another IP on the host's adapter for each VM.

Unfortunately I've only worked with Server on Windows hosts and ESXi (no host, just hypervisor) so I'm not going to be much help here. Can only guess and say, check your host settings? Perhaps it's blocking in/out traffic on that IP? (which is why you only get local pings).

My Windows host's also have bonded NIC's, so I don't think that's the case. Though, my experience with linux is limited, so I can't say for sure.

 

[Hybrid_theory]

someone on the vmware forums ended up knowing what was wrong after looking at some output. I had the default setting for what nic to use for the bridged network which was eth0. It needed to be bond0.