title: Can not ping or access guest from host - vmware
body: <p>I have win7 OS with vmware workstation with debian 7. This is the ipconfig of host(win 7)</p>
  
  <pre><code>   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
     IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 10.47.235.94
     Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
     Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am connected by NAT (I could not manage to do bridged connection). ifconfig of the guest is this</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/YQgF3.png" alt="debian 7 ifconfig - vmware"></p>
  
  <p>But pinging guest from host by ip <code>192.168.252.138</code> gives Request timed out. If I enable some network adapter from win7 network conenctions, say <code>VMnet1</code>, accordingly these lines appear in win7 ipconfig</p>
  
  <pre><code>Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet1:
  
     Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
     Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::4561:18cc:8abc:93a2%15
     IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.71.1
     Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
     Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and I can ping host from guest by <code>192.168.71.1</code>, but again can not ping guest from host(this is what I need).</p>
  
  <p>I do not have any firewall rules in guest: <code>/sbin/iptables -L</code> shows no rules. </p>
  
  <p>I am able to create custom virtual network and connect guest to it setting static ip address, in that case I can connect from host to guest, but the problem is I can not connect to the internet from guest.</p>
  
  <p>thanks</p>