NAT Internet connectivity from VMWare virtual LAN with 2003/XP
- From: JHman <JHman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:00:01 -0700
Ok, so I have this VMWare workstation virtual test network. 2003 server and
two XP clients in a VMWare "team", with two virtual LAN segments with private
subnets connected to virtual NICs in the server. Routing set up on the W2003
server so the XP clients can talk to each other on the different segments.
Works fine.
Now I want to give both XP clients internet access.
So the idea was: add a 3rd virtual NIC to the 2003 server, configure it in
VMWare as "NAT, share host (my laptop) IP address" and let this be the
default gateway.
First question: I figure this scenario WOULD work IF my "physical"/laptop
NIC would be directly connected to the Internet? The VMWare network adaptor
would have my public IP address available as "external" IP address, and do
address translation of the private IP addresses of my virtual XP clients with
this address.
BUT, obviously, my laptop is NOT directly connected to the Internet, but
through a NAT router(192.168.1.1). So the NAT-configured VMWare NIC is ITSELF
behind the NAT of a DSL router(which is outside my influence). It gets a
private 192.168.1.66 address assigned.
In any case, my XP clients do not have Internet access in this
configuration(the 2003 server does). But what exactly is going wrong? Is this
a config that will never work? Do I need to "bridge" the VMWare NIC and
enable NAT on the virtual 2003 server instead? Is it in principle possible to
disable NAT on the DSL router for something like this?
I feel dumb because somehow I expected "serial NAT" to work at least for
connections initiated from the inside :|
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