[newbie] Bridged networking in VMware.

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        Hi,

        I just installed VMware in a computer running Linux-Mandrake 7.2,
and haven't been able to set up the bridged configuration networking
properly. 
        The guest operating system is Windows 98. When I configured the
virtual machine I included both options of networking, bridged and host
only. As far as I understand, with the first option enabled one must
configure the virtual machine as it were a real machine apart from the
host computer. So I did, but didn't work.
        The network configuration of the virtual machine is the following:

        1. Two adapters of the AMD PCNET Family Ethernet (PCI-ISA) kind.
        2. A TCP/IP protocol pointing the each adapter:
           TCP/IP -> AMD PCNET Family Ethernet adapter (PCI-ISA)
           TCP/IP -> AMD PCNET Family Ethernet adapter (PCI-ISA)

        I configured one of the TCP/IP protocols this way:

        IP address: 148.206.45.106
        Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
        Gateway: 148.206.45.251
        DNS: 148.206.32.5,

        just like any other computer.

        The output of the ifconfig command is

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:C9:11:81:FC                         
          inet addr:148.206.45.26  Bcast:148.206.45.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:60548 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:31666 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:1699 txqueuelen:100
          Interrupt:9 Base address:0xdf80                                       
        

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback 
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3924  Metric:1
          RX packets:641 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:641 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0                                             

vmnet1    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:56:01:00:00
          inet addr:172.16.127.1  Bcast:172.16.127.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:259 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:137 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100                                           

        In the /dev/ directory there are all the net devices VMware uses:

        vmmon   vmnet0  vmnet1  vmnet2  vmnet3

        How can I succesfully configure the virtual machine? Thank in
advance for your help.

        Fabian Penha.