faking NAT with a VMware distributed switch across multiple hosts

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Published on 2010-03-11T05:45:34Z Indexed on 2010/03/11 5:48 UTC
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Have a VM that will act as the router, and will be connected to both networks (NAT + 'real').

I spread the distributed switch across the hosts, although any VM that is not on the same physical host as the router/dhcpd simply doesn't get an IP. So its obviously my dvSwitch config.

Has anyone achieved a NAT solution using a dvSwitch before that they could share?!

Thanks.

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