The issue troubles me several days and I cannot get my CentOS VM to access internet on NAT. I read the VM document and reviewed the settings again and again but not sure what is wrong. I am using VMware Server-2, my host OS is windows 7, and my guest VM OS is CentOS.
I configured NAT on VM network adapater.
On Host, VMnet8 has IP addr of 192.168.219.1
Guest VM, eth0 has IP addr of 192.168.219.129 (automatically obtained from DHCP), and DNS has addr of 192.168.219.2
All these settings seems are expected.
On Guest VM, I clearly see the DNS server is working. If I run "ping www.google.com", I see the DNS translation of IP addr of www.google.com is correct. But the ping is not working.
[root@localhost ~]# ping www.google.com
PING www.l.google.com (74.125.244.148) 56(84) btes of data
<===== ping test stuck here, but 74.125.244.148 is the correct address for google.com, so seems guest OS connecting with DNS server correctly, but ping test stuck until I CTRL-C to quit.
The following is the detailed info from HOST and GUEST, please help me identify what is wrong with the configurations
Info on HOST
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Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : abcd-WS
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : cisco.com
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : cisco.com
Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection 2:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-24-D7-B0-AA-2D
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Ethernet adapter Bluetooth Network Connection:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Bluetooth Device (Personal Area Network)
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : CC-52-AF-80-62-E5
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Cisco Systems VPN Adapter for 64-bit Wind
ows
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-05-9A-3C-78-00
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration IPv4 Address. . : 169.254.167.54(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled
Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) Centrino(R) Ultimate-N 6300 AGN
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-24-D7-B0-AA-2C
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.2(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Tuesday, September 20, 2011 11:08:17 PM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Wednesday, September 21, 2011 12:38:38 AM
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 68.87.76.182
68.87.78.134
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) 82577LM Gigabit Network Connection
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : F0-DE-F1-63-C6-B6
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet1:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter for VMnet1
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-50-56-C0-00-01
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.198.1(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled
Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet8:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter for VMnet8
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-50-56-C0-00-08
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.219.1(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Tuesday, September 20, 2011 11:08:18 PM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Wednesday, September 21, 2011 12:08:18 AM
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.219.254
Primary WINS Server . . . . . . . : 192.168.219.2
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled
Info of GUEST
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[root@localhost ~]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0c:29:37:5D:1A
inet addr:192.168.219.129 Bcast:192.168.219.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe37:5d1a/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1534 error:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frams:0
TX packets:4321 error:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collision:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:117438 (114.6KiB) TX bytes:420550 (410.6KiB)
Interrupt:75 Base address:0x2000
lo Link encap:local loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask 255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:560 (560.0 b) TX bytes:560 (560.0 b)