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Linux talking to Linux?


I decided I wanted to try out Debian.  But, I've no free computers lying
around!  So, on my redhat box I installed VMWare, then installed Debian in
that.  Had a few problems (had to do a floppy install cause I couldn't get
my hands on a debian cd this evening and vmware doesn't like .iso image
files), but all in all it went okay.  However, now I'm having some
difficulty with the networking.

VMWare lets you set up its virtual host so that it has an ethernet
adapter.  I've done that, and ifconfig shows it's all set up (typed from
hand since VMWare doesn't have cut&paste):
eth0	Link encap:Ethernet	HWaddr 00:50:56:80:2D:AE
	inet addr:192.168.201.253  Bcast:192.168.201.255  Mastk:255.255.255.0
	UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
	RX packets:244 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
	TX packets:249 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
	Collisions:0
	Interrupt:9 Base address:0x1000

So, VMWare's Debian knows about the ethernet adapter it's been given, and
has a network IP assigned to it (that's the one I chose for it).  I have
routing information set up as such:

Destination	Gateway		Genmask		Flags	Metric	Ref	Use	Iface
localnet	*		255.255.255.0	U	0	0	1	eth0
127.0.0.0	*		255.0.0.0	U	0	0	2	lo
default		romulus.nantico	0.0.0.0		UG	1	0	1	eth0

The gateway listed in the last line is my real machine (the one where the
VMware virtual machine is running on).  'localnet', AFAICT, is defined to
be "192.168.201.0", which is right for this setup.

On the debian virtual machine, I ping my redhat real machine.  On my
redhat real machine, I run 'ntop'. It shows me all these packets coming
in from the debian machine.  But, ping never returns any packets.  If I
ping from my real host to the virtual one, same story; no packets come
back.  Other services (i.e. telnet) fail the same way.

So, I'm confused.  It looks like the packets are coming in to the real
host, but I'm not picking them up.  I know the network is okay on the real
machine's side, as my X terminal attached to the network can boot off of
it just fine.  Does anyone have any suggestions?  I've never set up
networking in Debian before; heck, I've never done ANYTHING in Debian
before.  :-)  So, any other info or output can be provided if asked for.

Thanks a lot!
Tim

-- 
Timothy A. Meushaw
meushaw@REMOVEME.pobox.com
http://www.pobox.com/~meushaw/