That makes total sense. It should work and I tried doing that (creating a virtual switch with no actual adapter attached and connecting both VM's to that switch.) The strange thing is that ~some~ things sort of work. For example, a Windows test machine can get an IP address from DHCP, but it can't ping out to the gateway or any computer on the other side of the Untangle server and no host outside can ping in to the Windows host, either?
Chris On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Jonathan Moore <supermegat...@gmail.com>wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Chris McQuistion > <cmcquist...@watkins.edu> wrote: > ===8<==== > > VMware Server. I don't see any way of setting up "Host Only" networking > at > > all, in order to pass network traffic from one VM to another. I also > don't > > see a way of setting up virtual adapters. I tried creating a Virtual > > Switch, tied to a particular network adapter and using a particular VLAN > and > > then tried setting up my virtual machines to use those Virtual Switches > to > > logically connect them (the output of one server goes into the input of > > another.) This doesn't seem to work. > > Any ideas? > > I might not be following this correctly, but it sounds similar to > something we had at one > point. > > We only had two physical network cards in our ESXi server. We had > three virtual > switches configured. vSwitch0 was connected to vmnic0 (physical nic) > vSwitch1 > was connected to vmnic1 (physical nic) and vSwitch2 had no physical nic. > > vmnic0 was connected to our LAN and vmnic1 was connected into one of the > DMZ > ports on our edge switch, so in was basically " on the Internet" so to > speak. > > vSwitch2 (which has no physical network) had a VM that had a virtual > network card > connected to vSwitch0 and vSwitch2. This VM was setup as a Linux > router and routed > traffic into and out of that virtual switch. > > I hope you're able to follow that. > > In the end, we were able to route traffic into and out of a virtual > switch that had no physical > connection to any real network by building a virtual machine with two > network interfaces > and using it as a router. > > Again, hopefully this makes some sense, and might be helpful. I > wouldn't mind providing > simple diagrams or the like if you need, or even a screen shot of > vSphere or what not. > > -jonathan > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
