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I am not able to ping any machine(not even the host) from Guest VM in bridged mode. But I got an IP which is on the same subnet as host. I can ping my guest VM from the host and can use ssh to connect to the guest.

I am using Vmware workstation 6.5. Guest VM is a centos VM and host is windows xp.

Every thing works fine in NAT mode. Any clues as to what could be happening. I tried disabling all the firewalls I have.

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Try going into the "Virtual Network Editor" and click on "Automatic Settings" button in the Bridged section. Remove any adapters that are not and will not be connected to your network. This should solve your problem.

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Hi, My virtual network editor shows that my ethernet adapter(the one my host uses) is used for bridging. It is connected. I don't understand how I can get an IP address from DHCP server and can't ping the server itself – Kamal May 13 '10 at 17:21
I can't ping any of the DNS servers in generated /etc/resolv.conf which are the same as that of my host – Kamal May 13 '10 at 17:22
If you ping an external website does it resolve to an IP address? Can you ping the DNS servers from you host PC? DNS server may have ping blocked by a firewall. Also, have you tried to telnet to port 80 on a web server to see if you have connectivity that way? – Pablo May 13 '10 at 17:32
Yes I can ping my DNS servers from my host. From guest, I can't ping, can't resolve any external sites. I can ssh to my guest from host, but nothing from guest works – Kamal May 13 '10 at 18:33
Have you installed the VMWare Tools? – Pablo May 17 '10 at 15:41
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Bridge it to the host machine's gigabit ethernet adapter on the virtual network editor.

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