How to share a VPN connection in a VMWare Guest VM with the Host
- by Jonathan
The need - This question is relevant for all of those who want to bypass their corporate's annoying VPN, and access their work/corporate network from their private computer, especially if the corporate VPN client software can't run on their private computer.
Homework: this question is very similar to this one and this one, which aren't answered :(
The challange - Can't run the corporate VPN client from the private computer, so converted the work laptop to a VMWare Virtual Machine. The VPN client is working fine inside the Guest VM, now we want to share it with the Host (the private computer)
The specs:
* The private computer (Host OS) is Mac OS X Lion 64bit
* The corporate laptop (Guest VM) is WinXP 32bit, running in Bridged network mode
* The VPN client on the Guest VM is is Checkpoint SecuRemote NGX R60 HFA03
* While the VPN is running in the Guest VM, the Host can still ping the Guest and vice versa
