Not able to ping from guest to host ............
I have installed vmware server 2.0 on windows xp 64 bit host in my laptop
I have installed vm guest Redhat enterprise linux version 5.0
My vmnet1 ipaddress in host is 192.168.8.1 and of guest is 192.168.1.2
I am able to ping from host to guest ...
However i am not able to ping from guest to host ...
my guest ifconfig reads as follows
root@OEL5A ~# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:F1:CA:4C
inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fef1:ca4c/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:181909 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2476 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:168852097 (161.0 MiB) TX bytes:212117 (207.1 KiB)
Interrupt:59 Base address:0x2024
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:3414 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3414 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2688342 (2.5 MiB) TX bytes:2688342 (2.5 MiB)
/etc/hosts file of guest is
192.168.1.2 OEL5A.oracledba.com OEL5A
127.0.0.1 OEL5A localhost.localdomain localhost
::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
Please help me and let me know what could be the reasons ... there are no firewalls in guest or the host ...........?????????????