Posts Tagged ‘ethernet’

ARP resolves MAC address from IP address

A PC in an Ethernet network can communicate with another PC, if only it knows the Ethernet address (MAC address) of that PC. Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) is a network protocol uses to translate a PC’s IP address to physical (hardware) address. From OSI model point of view, ARP belongs to the OSI data link [...]

Quick fix to solve network connectivity problem in vmware guest virtual machine

This is a quick fix to vmware network virtualization.
Sometime while using vmware, your guest virtual machine may face the problem with network connectivity.

I have this problem with two of my virtual machines the other day. Only one of the virtual machines is able to connect to the network. (By the way, both are created [...]