I set them both at bridged model. I tried NAT as well, still cannot get the packets between them. The capture interface I chose was the physical interface of the host. Any ideas, thank u! asked 02 Aug '12, 19:45  Siyang edited 04 Aug '12, 04:27  Kurt Knochner ♦ |
2 Answers:
Hi, This works on my system: System:
Test case #1
Test case #2
So, what is your
Regards answered 03 Aug '12, 03:35 Kurt Knochner ♦ |
With Wireshark installed on the VM, all you will see is traffic to & from the VM plus broadcasts & multicasts. This is because when in bridged mode the physical Win 7 OS is acting as a switch, only passing up the traffic to & from the VM plus broadcasts & multicasts. If you install Wireshark on the Win 7 host, then you will be able to put the NIC in promiscuous mode and capture whatever passes your NIC (obviously dependant then on you SPAN session etc). answered 03 Aug '12, 14:05  KeithFrench Thank you! In theoretically, Wireshark should capture all the packages passed through it. Just in my case, when the 2 VMs are set in 'bridged' model, wireshark cannot capture the communication between them. (05 Aug '12, 23:52) Siyang |
Thank you Kurt, your case #2 works on my system.
Mine system is the same with u, except my Vmware is workstation 8.0.0.
However, I understand the differences of the models, I'm still not clear that why the case #1 cannot work on my system.
Could you explain the reason in detail? That would help a lot!
Thank you! Siyang
VMware Workstation uses 'auto-bridging' per default. If you have multiple interfaces on your host (including WLAN interfaces), VMware might have mapped the VM interfaces to a host interface you do not expect. Please configure manual mapping of the bridged interfaces and then try again.
Change 'Automatic' the your LAN interface. You should be able to capture on the host now. If that does not work, they have changed something in VMware 8.0.