Hello,

I'm experiencing some problems with m0n0wall in a VMware environment.

My goal is to test m0n0wall as PPTP server.

WindowsXP-A connects m0n0wall
then gets access to WindowsXP-B

Unfortunately WindowsXP-B couldn't
receive an IP address from m0n0wall's DHCP
Below the details and explanations :

                ---LAN----WindowsXP-B
               | 
[ m0n0wall ]|---WAN----WindowsXP-A
               | 
                ---DMZ
  
- I downloaded a m0n0wall vmdisk from Chris Buechler web page:
http://chrisbuechler.com/index.php?id=18

(Chris prepared some VM disks, thanks to him)

- I loaded the following image into a VMware GSX 3.2 :
http://chrisbuechler.com/m0n0wall/downloads/m0n0wall-1.2b7-HD-VMware-legacy.zip

- Then a loaded a Windows XP

- Chris prepared the m0n0wall vmdisk as follows:
NIC1 - Ethernet 1 - LAN - VMnet2 (192.168.96.1/24)
NIC2 - Ethernet 2 - WAN - VMnet3
NIC3 - Ethernet 3 - OPT - VMnet4 (192.168.97.1/24)

- I set the Windows XP as follows:
NIC - Vmnet2

- Then I started the m0n0wall vmdisk
In the m0n0wall Console Setup I chose option 6)
I tried pinging : 192.168.96.1 --> OK

-After that I started WindowsXP-B.
As said WindowsXP NIC was set to VMnet2
I was expecting WindowsXP to get an IP
address from m0n0wall, something like 192.168.96.*

Unfortunately nothing came as expected.
WindowsXP-B got his IP from internal DHCP
something like 169.x.x.x

I couldn't ping the m0n0wall interface 192.168.96.1
and had no results with an ipconfig /renew

To be honest I'm not that comfortable with VMware
but I really don't see what is going wrong with the config
above. Something's probably missing.

Thanks for your help

Tom.