title: Cannot Connect CentOS VM to Internet (NAT Connection)
body: <p>So after fighting the VMWare network giant for the past day, I decided to give in and ask for help.  I have a CentOS 6 image running on Windows 7 using a NAT on VMWare Workstation 8.0.2 build-591240, and for some reason, I can no longer connect to the internet with a static IP address. This seems to only to apply to static, and not DHCP, which tells me it's either: some program on my Windows 7 OS that's blocking the connection for that IP address, or there's something weird that happened to my configuration on the  CentOS image.</p>
  
  <p>I didn't know if this was due to a yum update, so I tried reinstalling VMWare tools.  This didn't seem to fix the issue.  I've also tried the following:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Made sure the VMnet connection was connected (stupid, but had to check... also I can connect to the internet with DHCP)</li>
  <li>Made sure my firewall on Windows allowed for VMware to connect to the internet</li>
  <li>I've seen/read that Windows sometimes blocks ping requests, so I tried going to www.google.com in Firefox, this got a "Server not found response"... so do I have to do something different for DNS??</li>
  <li>I checked the registry of my Windows machine, I only have 1 entry for a default gateway</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Like I said, this seemed to happen out of the blue.  The image could connect to the internet before with no issue.  Is anyone aware of a CentOS update that might cause this? I've added my configuration below to save some debugging cycles:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[root@MyCentOS ~]# ifconfig
  eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:29:A0:51:BD
            inet addr:192.168.88.128  Bcast:192.168.88.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
            UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
            RX packets:683 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
            TX packets:67 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
            collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
            RX bytes:64242 (62.7 KiB)  TX bytes:8055 (7.8 KiB)
  
  lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
            inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
            UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
            RX packets:1049 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
            TX packets:1049 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
            collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
            RX bytes:68417 (66.8 KiB)  TX bytes:68417 (66.8 KiB)
  
  
  [root@MyCentOS ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
  DEVICE="eth0"
  BOOTPROTO="static"
  IPV6INIT="no"
  NM_CONTROLLED="no"
  ONBOOT="yes"
  IPADDR=192.168.88.128
  NETMASK=255.255.255.0
  GATEWAY=192.168.88.2
  TYPE="Ethernet"
  
  [root@MyCentOS ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network
  NETWORKING=yes
  HOSTNAME=MyCentOS
  GATEWAY=192.168.88.2
  
  [root@MyCentOS ~]# service iptables status
  iptables: Firewall is not running.
  [root@MyCentOS ~]# service ip6tables status
  ip6tables: Firewall is not running.
  [root@MyCentOS ~]# cat /etc/selinux/config
  
  # This file controls the state of SELinux on the system.
  # SELINUX= can take one of these three values:
  #     enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced.
  #     permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing.
  #     disabled - No SELinux policy is loaded.
  SELINUX=disabled
  # SELINUXTYPE= can take one of these two values:
  #     targeted - Targeted processes are protected,
  #     mls - Multi Level Security protection.
  SELINUXTYPE=targeted
  
  [root@MyCentOS ~]# ping 192.168.88.2
  PING 192.168.88.2 (192.168.88.2) 56(84) bytes of data.
  64 bytes from 192.168.88.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=0.391 ms
  64 bytes from 192.168.88.2: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=0.271 ms
  ^C
  --- 192.168.88.2 ping statistics ---
  2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1349ms
  rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.271/0.331/0.391/0.060 ms
  
  [root@MyCentOS ~]# ping www.google.com
  ping: unknown host www.google.com
  
  [root@MyCentOS ~]# uname -a
  Linux MyCentOS 2.6.32-431.3.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jan 3 21:39:27 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
  [root@MyCentOS ~]# vmware-toolbox-cmd -v
  8.8.2.10499 (build-590212)
  </code></pre>