Hi folks,
I am running VMware server on a 64-bit CentOS box with dual ethernet adapters. Each adapter is connected to a router/cable modem going to different ISPs. Each router has a DHCP server running offers up addresses to any client that requests one. Each nic is configured to use DHCP however, I only use 1 nic at a time. Sometimes I may have eth0 plumbed up and connected, sometimes I may have eth1 plumbed up and connected, but never both at the same time.
I had eth1 connected when I installed VMware server and also when I installed the guest OS. I used bridged networking for the Virtual adapter. VMware tools is installed. When the guest OS is running and I have eth1 up and connected, I can get to the Internet just fine. But when I take down eth1 and bring up eth0, I am disconnected from everything. I would like to be able to connect to the network no matter which nic is up and running on my Linux box.
I checked in the .vmx file to see if there was any setting that I could change to eth0 when I'm on that adapter but didn't see any. Am I missing something in there that is preventing me from connecting on the other nic (eth0)? Also, I tied to add another virtual nic to the guest config and tell it to use eth0, but I don't see an option to specify individual nics. Is it possible that my VMware configuration is only aware of 1 adapter since only 1 was up at the time of installation?
Any help on this is greatly appreciated.
Thanks