As per the long recent thead, only ONE machine can talk directly to the cable modem. This is true whether the machines are physical machines you can hit with a hammer or virtual machines; vmware makes a machine which is quite indistinguishable to software from a physical machine, so all the same rules apply. The easiest thing to do is to enable host-only networking, assign fixed IP addresses in the private network space (eg, 192.168.101.1 & 192.168.101.2) to the vmware host and client, and make the host a gateway to the client, while simultaneously forwarding host packats to the client. You want to check out the IP masquarading and firewall howtos. Actually, you want to do this even if you didn't have vmware; cable modems are particularly insequere and you are quite vulerable if you've just popped the ethernet card in and are treating it like you were on a LAN. -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
