-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Looking at the output of the ifconfig (ipconfig for windows) for each of the three platforms would probably be revealing.
What IP addresses are the martian's? (they aren't valid for the network(s) you have defined, by definition) Are these UDP broadcast packets from/to port 137 (netbios-ns) coming from the winders box? Whatever your problem is, I'm sure it would apply to a Mandrake box ;-) Fajar Priyanto wrote: > Dear all, > I have a linux host running Vmware workstation 4. > I installed the guest OS (RH9 and Win98). > Both guests acquire their network setting from host's DHCP server. > > Now, strange things happen: > 1. I can't ping from and to both host and guests OS. Error message: host > unreachable. > 2. On the host machine, there are a lot of "martian source" notice in syslog > regarding the ping / whatever network activities from guest OSes. > > I searched the net, and dealt with problem #1 by : > route add -host for both host and guest. > Now they can ping each other, sharing internet, sambaing, etc... > > However, the martian source notice persists in the host's syslog. > What is causing it? Any idea is greatly appreciated. > > Thanks. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com - -- KevinO If Microsoft built cars, If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/gniWWOfRC7Rnmv8RAhmCAJ9KOfb5dgbgPUiC8SmZv3YWd59ICgCfZ6Bv 3x/+bJY5R7+9XWDaWHBGuYA= =2Oc9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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