All,
First time poster. Need help.
Setup: windows xp host, debian etch 4.0 guest, vmware server 1.3.
were looking to set up development environmentfor software engineers in debian + asterisk for ip testing only. To avoid big hardware spend this seems like the best way to go.
Ive set up the image in vmware server , the host has two physical nics , one for local lan access and one for connecting to development boards, the vm has two nics for the same purpose.In the vms the first nic is using NAT to access our LAN (works fine) and the second is bridged to the second physical nic to connect to the development board (working fine , gets dhcp , can regsiter phones etc)
However after testing asterisk seems confused. After looking into it a bit more it seems that the BRIDGE is confusing asterisk when network transactions are taking place. Traffic going out from the vm to the development board seems ok but the traffic coming back is getting confused by the way the physical and virtual nics are bridged/switched ?. Im not sure if anyone has seen this before or is there any way to isolate the traffic to the virtual nic using forwarding or another technique.
Outside of asterisk this set up works perfectly well and there no problems.
Am desperate at this stage so any feed back appreciated.