Hello friends .
Once again i am here with the new problem.
I have install the RHEL 5 and windows xp in a vmware workstation.
The host os is Windows xp as well.

Now the issue is , i can ping the host os windows xp from the guest winxp machine , i can ping my guest RHEL 5 as well from the guest XP, i can ping the home router as well. Overall i can ping all the machine from the guest os xp in vmware workstation.

But i can't ping the guest winxp machine from the RHEL 5 os. while winxp guest os pings the guest RHEL 5 guest os .

when i try to ping it ,, it shows nothing ...

# ping 192.168.0.102



nothing appers after a long time as well.
KIndly help me .

What kind of network is your VM using? Is it NATing?

If it is, your host can't ping, because when it recieves the address it send the packet to your default gateway to be lost forever.
The only way I know around this is to change the network type, I'm a fan of bridging myself.

I am using the bridge connection type in both the guest os (RHEL5 , xp) . My guest os windows xp can ping my guest os linux and host system windows xp , but my this guest os winxp can't ping from any other system neither other guest os (RHEL5) nor the host system (Winxp) .
pleaaase help me ..

I am using the vmware workstation 6.
when i ping the guest os (winxp) from the guest os (RHEL5) it shows nothing..

i have given the

# ping 192.168.0.105




it losts all the packages

Is the firewall switched on in XP - common mistake...

Disable the firewall in XP and try again.

I have disabled the firewall of the xp earlier .. I was done that ...
Help me

Being that no NATing is involved, and you can ping from guest to host, we can safely say there is two-way communications (other wise the packet could not return).

The problem still sounds as though XP is not returning pings, even though the firewall is disabled. Try putting the VM in safemode with networking, and attempt a ping once more. That will ensure there are no anti-virus protections, 3rd party firewalls or some unaccounted service that is denying the packets.

Hi,

Could you show us the output of :

On the Guest OS :
-1a- ipconfig
-2a- ping => RHEL VM

On the RHEL VM :
-1b- ip a
-2b- route
-3b- ping => Guest OS

Dear Chirel
The IP Address of the guest os (Winxp)
ipconfig
ip address 192.168.0.105
subnet mask 255.255.255.0
Default gateway 192.168.0.1

when i ping my other guest (RHEL5 192.168.0.123) from the guest os winxp.

> ping 192.168.0.123 -t

Reply from 192.168.0.123: bytes=32 time <1ms TTL = 64
Reply from 192.168.0.123: bytes=32 time <1ms TTL = 64
Reply from 192.168.0.123: bytes=32 time <1ms TTL = 64
Reply from 192.168.0.123: bytes=32 time <1ms TTL = 64

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The Ip address of the Guest os RHEL5
[root@vserver Desktop]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:4E:72:B8
inet addr:192.168.0.123 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe4e:72b8/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:948 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:802 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:94774 (92.5 KiB) TX bytes:122376 (119.5 KiB)
Interrupt:169 Base address:0x2000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1914 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1914 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3705284 (3.5 MiB) TX bytes:3705284 (3.5 MiB)

============================================================

[root@vserver Desktop]# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
default 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0


[root@vserver Desktop]# ping 192.168.0.105
PING 192.168.0.105 (192.168.0.105) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- 192.168.0.105 ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 5004ms


Now Please suggest me what to do now ..

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If any one want to take the remote of my system and want to solve this issue ,,,, please let me know ,,,,,,,

The problem appears to be on the RHEL guest. Look at the number of errors for both TX and Rx on IPv4 and IPv6. Even the loopback has errors! Are you about to ping loopback on the RHEL guest?

If on the guest os arp -a give you 00:0C:29:4E:72:B8 associated with ip 192.168.0.123, i can only have the same opinion then Roger Heslop.
The problem then must be that windows xp filter icmp reply even if you don't have firewall.