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Can you provide more information about the problem. You have VMWare running on rhel5? What type of operating system do you have running as a virtual machine? What is the IP address of the virtual machine? What is the IP address of your rhel5 machine? What is the network type you are using with VMWare? Bridged?
Can you provide more information about the problem. You have VMWare running on rhel5? What type of operating system do you have running as a virtual machine? What is the IP address of the virtual machine? What is the IP address of your rhel5 machine? What is the network type you are using with VMWare? Bridged?
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He said VirtualBox, not VMware.
The issue is likely that your VM is configured for NAT. It's going to get it's own IP address from VirtualBox. If you use ifconfig (if using *nix) or ipconfig /all (if using Windows) in the virtual machine, you'll see that your IP address is probably in the form of 10.x.x.x, which is probably different from your network's configuration.
centos82 is right, though. We need more information about how you have VirtualBox configured, specifically in the network adapter area.
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By design, ping doesn't work from the VB guest to the outside if you have the network configured for NAT.
Wierd, but true. All the other traffic works, bit not ICMP. It is described in the manual, it is not an error.
It might be (and it likely is) different if you use a different configuration of the network. Using NAT is simple and I think preferable unless you have special requirements. On a laptop it is the only way to use the Wireless.
By design, ping doesn't work from the VB guest to the outside if you have the network configured for NAT.
Wierd, but true. All the other traffic works, bit not ICMP. It is described in the manual, it is not an error.
It might be (and it likely is) different if you use a different configuration of the network. Using NAT is simple and I think preferable unless you have special requirements. On a laptop it is the only way to use the Wireless.
jlinkels
IIRC, ping does work in other network configurations.
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