[Xastir] VMWare Network issue

[Tom Russo]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 09:33:06PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <mckeehan at mckeehan.homeip.net> flavor, containing:
> I just had not scrolled down far enough in the wiki I guess.
> 
> Zone Alarm was not my problem, but it is firewall related. The laptop is
> running Vista and Vista's firewall was on. I'll explore what I need to change
> there to make it work, but turning off the firewall has it functional, so I
> know that's where the problem is.
> 
> Thanks! I'll let everyone know how it turns out.

Check vmware.com's knowledge base --- perhaps there's some vista-related
hints there that will get you going quickly.

> On Wed, May 14, 2008 9:12 pm, Tom Russo wrote:
> > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 09:00:53PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron
> > collision of the <mckeehan at mckeehan.homeip.net> flavor, containing:
> >> I just tried to setup the VMWare version of Xastir on my laptop.
> >>
> >> I ran into one problem - no network support. The laptop is connected to a
> >> wireless network. Any ideas/pointers to where I may find the solution?
> >
> > Make sure the vm is set to "NAT" for its virtual ethernet.  That *should* just
> > route everything through your laptop's network connection.
> >
> > You could also have firewall issues.  What are you using for firewall
> > software?
> > I've seen Issues with ZoneAlarm.  There's a workaround (mentioned on the
> > Wiki) but it's been ages since I've done it so I can't provide more detail.

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