Hi everybody,

I am new to the Linux world and networking, so i decided to buy a book and download VMWare Workstation 30-day trial and CentOS 6.

I am following the book and i want to assign static ip addresses to my linux VMs. The book uses the subnet IP 192.168.122.0/24 and as i want to keep everything the same, i changed the NAT (VMNet 8) IP subnet in VMWare Workstation to 192.168.122.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 Under the NAT Settings in the Virtual Network Editor for VMNet8 (NAT) it shows the gateway being 192.168.122.2

In my Linux VM (CentOS), i configured the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and added:
IPADDR: 192.168.122.20
NETMASK: 255.255.255.0
GATEWAY: 192.168.122.2
DNS1: 192.168.122.2

I also changed the /etc/sysconfig/network file and added:
GATEWAY: 192.168.122.2

I then did a 'service network restart' and everything restarted fine. When i tried to ping the gateway (192.168.122.2) i get a Destination Host Unreachable. When i use DHCP in the CentOS image, i get an ip address of 192.168.122.130 (random but the DHCP scope starts at .128-/254) and everything is working fine. I can ping the gateway and the outside world (google.com for example).

What am i doing wrong in my settings for the static ip address that i cannot get any networking connectivity? I read somewhere that i must use Bridged networking mode instead of NAT (which i am using) to use static ip address? But i do not understand why, when using DHCP everything works fine.

Can someone please help and let me know where i am going wrong so i can learn from my mistake?

Thank you very much guys.

Hi.

I use VMWare Server 2. I always use Bridged networking. It allows VMs to see each other as well as to get to the Internet. I assign static IPs.

To see some of the differences among the 3 modes pf networking in VMWare, do a Google search for vmware server bridged versus nat -- the first hit -- Blog Rat-- and a few of the many VMWare hits provide some comparisons.

Best wishes ... cheers, makyo