Network suddenly stopped working

[keithruck]

Workstation 6.5.3 Build 185404

Host: Win Vista. Updates are downloaded, but I choose when to install them, and I haven't installed any in the last week.

I have 6 different virtual machines, one of which is a primary environment, the others I use only when I need those configurations. Sometime in the past few days, I lost all internet connectivity to the VMs. Host still has connectivity. When I open the VM, it registers a 1Gbps connection, but I can't even load Google.

I have both Bridged and NAT turned on (my wireless card didn't play well with Bridged, so I turned on NAT and it has worked for well over a year that way)

I checked multiple VMs to see if it was a problem with just one client machine, but they all seem to lack connectivity.

I'm not technically astute enough to know what else to troubleshoot- I welcome ideas and suggestions. If there are any logs that I should be checking, please include basic info on where to find them, I'm an end user of VMWare and I've only familiarized myself with the parts I need to know to do my work (at home, otherwise I'd have an IT department to ask for help

Many thanks,

Keith

[keithruck]

Update:

Under Vista, I checked network connections and tested the VM connections and both gave the error "the network adapter 'Local area connection' and Local Area connection 2 does not have a valid IP configuration. I then went in to the properties for each, and while all the other network protocols were checked, the VMWare bridge protocol was unchecked. I rechecked that for both connections, but subsequent testing gave the same IP configuration error, soI went back in and unchecked them again.

I did look at the IP settings (because I'm used to everything obtaining an IP address automatically) and I did notice on the TCP/IPv4 that rather than obtaining an address automatically, both had a specific IP address and subnet mask specified. I'm assuming that is normal for the "local" VMware connection.

Still stumped on what happened, and how to get internet connectivity back.

Thanks!

Keith

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C:\Users\Admin_Root>ipconfig/all

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Admin_Root-PC

Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :

Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid

IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : hsd1.wa.comcast.net.

Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : hsd1.wa.comcast.net.

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom 802.11g Network Adapter

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1D-60-BE-14-AD

DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes

Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.100(Preferred)

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Monday, January 11, 2010 8:31:28 PM

Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, January 14, 2010 3:47:42 PM

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1

DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 68.87.69.150

68.87.85.102

NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter for VMnet

1

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-50-56-C0-00-01

DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No

Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.242.1(Preferred)

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter for VMnet

8

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-50-56-C0-00-08

DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No

Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1(Preferred)

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled

[AWo]

Please post:

If you are using NAT or bridged, now.

"ipconfig /all" from an affected guest.

If you use "bridged" check that the bridge protocol is enabled on your primary (wired) network connection in the host.

AWo

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