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Don’t take this the wrong way.

I ONLY want answers to my questions, as posed.

I DO NOT want to spend alot pf time debating what the “perfect network config” is, or the theory behind IP addressing or whatever.

I NEED TO KNOW how Windows handles a packet if it gets plunked on his lap but he realizes it’s not for him.

Thanks, but I am not trying to set up some network so perfect my name would go down in history for it, and me, myself, and I am the ONLY user.

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I ONLY want answers to my questions, as posed.

I NEED TO KNOW how Windows handles a packet if it gets plunked on his lap but he realizes it’s not for him.

Thanks, but I am not trying to set up some network so perfect my name would go down in history for it, and me, myself, and I am the ONLY user.

In answer to your question, what does windows do when a packet is not addressed to it? It simply drops the packet. If the node you are send to is not on your network, the packet eventually expires.

If you're the only user, why are you trying to complicate things by creating a second network? Keep everything on 192.168.0.x Most things appear to work, it's only the communication between your host adapter and the virtual application, whatever the hell that is, that isn't working.

Also, put out of your mind that we are talking about VMWARE in any way. What I will say is it is a “virtual machine” type application that the host communicates with through TUN/TAP.

Ok, so you want everyone to shoot in the dark troubleshooting YOUR mysterious "virtual machine" type application, and then you get all testy by telling us to "put it out of your minds". You might want to rethink that approach when asking for help.

Everything between the host and the virtual machine works perfect, I can FTP, I can TELNET, I can PING, I can see all of the virtual machines TCPIP ports from the host. But I cannot see the virtual machine from any other machine on the same network as the host.

You can pull your ethernet cable, and ping yourself all day long.

You may just be out of luck with that mysterious application on W2K. By virtue of you mentioning TUN/TAP almost as an afterthought, it sounds as though you need a bridge to gap the two adapters for Tunneling, and that doesn't work very nicely under Windows 2000.