Hi all,
I've been several days strugling to get a PPPoE broadband ADSL connection working from within a WinXPSP2 guest running on VMware Server 1.0.4. I've read many postings here but my problem seems to be bit different and I guess is not very difficult to solve, is just that I may be missing something...
Facts:
1) The host OS (WinXPSP2) connects OK (i.e. Broadband connection, PPPoE)
2) A WinXPSP2 guest running on MS Virtual PC connects OK. (using Bridged networking)
3) If I use ICS on the host to share the Internet connection, the WinXPSP2 guest on VMware access the Internet perfectly.
4) A WinFLP guest running on VMware Server 1.0.4 does not connect too.
My deductions:
1) -> Means there are no problems with the broadband connection itself.
3) -> Means that the guest NIC is correctly bridged to the host
2) -> Means that MS Virtual PC PPPoE connection works from the guest so there are no problems with WinXPSP2 firewalls, etc.
4) -> Means that it is most probably a VMWare problem specifically at network layer 2. Something is blocking the layer 2 packets when encapsulating PPP either inbound or outbound
Looking forward to your comments/advice,
Best,
Endo