In this post I will show you simple steps required to create your own internal network infrastructure using vmware workstation. This can be useful in case you want to practice some networking stuff and you are out of physical computers so reducing the complexity you can utilize the features provided by vmware for the same.Assuming that you have successfully installed vmware workstation in your machine. Create virtual machines as per your requirement.
In the left hand panel of vmware workstation you can see the list of installed vms. Now before starting your own internal network you need to create one range of network which will be used by all the vms locally independent of your main network.
Follow the screenshots as shown below
Click on Edit from the Top Panel and select Virtual Network Editor
Click on Add Network
Select any of the network port you want to add from the drop down menu
Make sure the settings are as shown in the below screenshot. You can change the IP Address range as per your requirement
Now change the Network Adapter in the required vms whom you want to be in the same Internal Network
Follow the same steps for all those vm you want to add in the internal network.
Once done check the IP configuration as you can see in my case
# ifconfig eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:05:61:5E inet addr:192.168.130.128 Bcast:192.168.130.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe05:615e/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:686 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:337 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:84990 (82.9 KiB) TX bytes:50044 (48.8 KiB) Interrupt:19 Base address:0x2080 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:1127 (1.1 KiB) TX bytes:1127 (1.1 KiB)
# ping 192.168.130.1
PING 192.168.130.1 (192.168.130.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.130.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=2.57 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.130.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=0.242 ms
^C
--- 192.168.130.1 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1337ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.242/1.408/2.574/1.166 ms