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[Closed] VMWare helpdesk ticket #3245

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Why doesn't host-only network allow me to ping my guest? What've I not done?


 
Posted : 19/01/2017 4:20 pm
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27.654.876.998123


 
Posted : 19/01/2017 4:24 pm
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Is your guest OS set to respond to pings? firewall?


 
Posted : 19/01/2017 4:24 pm
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Ah.. didn't disable the firewall on the guest.. tried setenforce 0 and it still doesn't work though. It's CentOS 7


 
Posted : 19/01/2017 4:29 pm
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Right. Guests can ping *each other*, just not the host.


 
Posted : 19/01/2017 4:56 pm
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ESXi ? I didn't think you could do this without having another VM running some basic firewall with an adapter on both your isolated network and one bound to a physical adapter.


 
Posted : 19/01/2017 6:00 pm
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Right. Guests can ping *each other*, just not the host.

Why would you want to, out of interest?


 
Posted : 19/01/2017 6:05 pm
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Host virtual network adapter for the host-only network (vmnet1) was buggered up somehow - it was showing APIPA ip address.

In the VMWare virtual network editor, 'restore defaults' actually deletes and re-creates everything. Working now. FFS.

Why would you want to, out of interest?

I install all my dev server software on Linux VMs to keep everything neat and tidy. Current customer is using Windows client software. I should probably install a Windows VM for this but I just used my guest for expidency. May regret that later mind.


 
Posted : 19/01/2017 6:05 pm