Could very well be the iptables firewall. I forget if it's on by default in Karmic, but a "iptables -L" (as root) should tell you if it's doing anything.
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Daniel Herrington < [email protected]> wrote: > So I did some further testing. I get the same problem with host only > networking as I do with nat. Bridged networking seems to work fine > though. The guest OS gets an ip on my House LAN (yeah wireless > bridging!) and I can get to it from any machine. > > Does anyone know how Vmware handles it's nat? There's a config file > under /etc/vmware/vmnet3/nat but it appears exactly the same as the one > on my clone. > > Did Ubuntu 9.1 include any default changes with firewall settings or tcp > wrappers? I don't have any entries in /etc/hosts.allow or hosts.deny, so > I'm assuming tcp wrappers isn't enabled. I can't see any settings for > firewalls under administration, so I'm also assuming that nothing new > was added there. > > > Daniel Herrington wrote: > > All, > > > > Is anyone running ubuntu 9.1 as a vmware host? I'm noticing in my test > > environment that I can't ping or ssh to any of my NAT machines. I have > > routes to the correct vmnet interface, but for some reason all the > > packets get lost. > > > > vmnet3 on the host is configured as 192.168.0.1 > > guest is 192.168.0.134 > > > > host route shows: > > 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 vmnet3 > > > > guest route shows: > > 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 > > default 192.168.0.2 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 > > > > my guest can ping 192.168.0.2 without problems, but can't ping > > 192.168.0.1. Both ip addresses are the host machine. > > > > The host machine can ping 192.168.0.1, but not 192.168.0.2. > > > > I can ssh from the guest into the host, although I can't go in the > > reverse direction. > > > > I'm guessing there's something missing in the routing table, but I > > compared the route outputs on my Ubuntu 8.1 Vmware server 2 hosts and > > they appear the same. Does anyone have any idea where I can begin > > looking to find the cause? > > > > thanks, > > Dan H. > > > > > > > -- > Daniel B. Herrington > Director of Field Services > Robert Mark Technologies > [email protected] > o: 651-769-2574 > m: 503-358-8575 > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
