Good Day Folks,
Please excuse my naive questions. I am very new to vmware and in most of the IT world. I did tried searching for this topic and was unsuccessfull in finding one.
I have installed VMWARE server 2.0.2 and so far its working all good. I am using it for my study regarding microsoft's 70 640 exam. I am unable to find answer for the following :
My Router(physical not virtual) ip address is 192.168.1.254 /24. It also acts as dhcp server providing addresses to clients in range of 192.168.1.64-253. I have installed a guest Windows 2k8 server on one vmware machine. On this vmware machine the ip address is 192.168.5.2 /24 and its default gateway is 192.168.5.1. I have another vmware client's which have ip address in the range on 192.168.5.x range. The Windows 2k8 can ping all the clients as they are in 192.168.5.x network. Please note that all the vmware machines are configured as Bridged mode.
Now if i look into my Router( Physical) i do not see any vmware machine as an active connected pc on the router. I can not understand how come then all the vmware clients are able to ping each other as i do not see them connected to Router/Switch.
One last question, If i change the win2k8 vmware machine's ip address to obtain it automatically, then i can see the vmware machine as a connected pc on my Router. But if i assign the same ip address manually (The ip address which DHCP gave it automatically) then i do not see the vmware pc as a connected pc on router anymore.
Thanks for your valuable time folks.