Good Morning all,

I am running windows 2019 with hyper-v, and have 2 instances of Centos 7 Minimal (7.9 2009), I have installed windows 10 with them all three are using external IP address, NO DHCP, NO Internal ip address.

The windows machine works fine with the static IP, so the Windows 2019 and hyper-v are setup correct, but the 2 Centos 7.9 instances will not ping 8.8.8.8

So my question, what is the setup for a centos 7.9 machine is to talk to an outside website on the internet please.

Remember this is a minimal setup so commands like ifconfig and netstat don't exisist

Thank in advance from Alan

Is NetworkManager setup for this machine? If so, perhaps double-check the interface with
If nmcli is not available, then check under /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/

If NetworkManager is not being used, then perhaps doublecheck files in network-scripts directory and resolv.conf
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And, also, if everything looks good; wonder if there is anything at Network layer? Perhaps assign the IP address you have for Linux machine to one of the Windows servers, and to make sure nothing at Network layer is the issue?

Network Manager is installed by default and while the ifconfig is not (it is actually deprecated) there is the ip command. How did you configure the CentOS instances?

Thank you for the reply, Networkmanager is installed, not sure if that works through a GUI interface, which I don't have
there is no named.conf as no bind or bind-utils are loaded as a minimal install
That leaves /etc/sysconfig/Network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 nd I think that is correct
hence I asked what is expected, so I have something to check from.

All the best from Alan & Thank you.

I think the only point you are interested in is, I did not setup external , private, or internal, because they generate dhcp, and I want to use
public ip addresses, so I just used the virtual broadcomm interface, 10 processers 8192 for memory, then installed Centos 7.9 and configured the ethernet
with ip address, gateway, and google dns 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4

Hope that is what you wanted to hear...

All the best and thank you from Alan

For NetworkManager, it does not look at /etc/sysconfig/Network-scripts/
Rather, it goes by what's in: /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/

And, "nmcli" is not a GUI tool, it is command-line tool for controlling/configuring NetworkManager.

Well, when you can't believe the impossible, then start to believe, I found the problem, the broadband provider changed my block of IP addresses
Now everything works...

Thank you to all for your help..

All the best from Alan