On Fri, 12 May 2000, Robert Norris wrote: > > Can I just use IP-Masquerading with ipchains to allow my vmware virtual > > machines to access the internet? > > You certainly can. Enable the 'host-only networking option' of vmware, > which will create an interface called 'vmnet1'. Give this an IP address like > 192.168.1.1 (or whatever). Set up networking for your virtual machine, and > set 192.168.1.1 as its gateway. Then just set up the appropriate > ipfwadm/ipchains rules and you're away. > > Regards, > Rob. >
Thanks Rob, it's working like a champ. The one problem I had was that I hadn't remembered about setting up either a DNS or adding to my /etc/hosts file. But, once I did that, everything worked swimmingly. -- -bob Remember the... the... uhh..... ********************************************************************** * Robert Kerr, The morphing guy. * MS 0847 Sandia National Labs * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Albuquerque NM 87185-0847 * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Phone: (505) 844-8606 * * http://www.et.byu.edu/~kerrr * Fax: (505) 844-9297 * **********************************************************************
