[ale] DNAT/SNAT for VMware WinXP Guest?

[Jeff Hubbs]

I should say that if I had a way to enforce a coupling between a VMware 
Server guest OS and a real NIC on the host, that would be perfect, but I 
can't find a way to do that.

Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> I'm in a network environment where the Ethernet switch won't accept 
> having more than one MAC address appearing on a single drop.  This 
> means that putting an Ethernet switch on a drop in order to hook up 
> more than one machine per drop won't work.
>
> This also breaks VMware guests when bridged networking is used for the 
> VMware guest.  NAT for the VMware guest *does* work, but if you need 
> Windows networking stuff (shares, logins, etc) like a WinXP guest 
> would, it won't work through NAT.
> I've been told that if I use host-only networking on the VMware guest 
> - and I've gotten it to work such that the host's VMware-generated 
> "vmnet1" interface and the WinXP guest can see each other - I could 
> use DNAT and possibly also SNAT to pass traffic from vmnet1 to an 
> extra NIC in the host, eth2, and cable eth2 to a separate drop.  
> Windows authentication, network browsing, etc. should then work.  I 
> understand that I would have to remove anything from the routing table 
> that would involve eth2, basically "disconnecting" it from the host OS.
> Is this at all possible?  If so, what would the iptables invocation 
> look like?
>
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