No VPN connection / No Internet / No IP Problems

[KaiserSoft]

Been working on updating the documentation today and ran into a few issues establishing VPN connections (resolving host names). Turns out the firewall I am running (Online Armor) is messing with network requests from my VMs.

ping google.com fails but ping StaticIP works fine

So I am posting this until I get the manual reworked. You may need to reconfigure your firewall or turn it off if you are NOT running this VM on a dedicated ESX/ESXi server. Some "anti virus" products may interfere with network requests as well ....

EDIT: One thing I noticed is that it works fine when the primary network interface is set to "NAT". The VM will also boot much faster because name lookups are not timing out anymore. You are going to have to configure NAT routing within VMware to get this setup working .... NOT recommended. Fix your firewall!