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My goal is to connect over WAN to a Windows VM via RDP. The problem is that my new router HG633, does not detect the VMs as connected devices, therefore direct port forwarding to them doesn't work. (NOTE: the VMs have network access via the same router).
So I need a workaround to my issue by the more experienced users.
Host OS: OSX 10.11.6 / VMware Fusion 8 / Guest OS: Windows Server 2008 (Using Bridged Network configuration).
- Can I port forward external connections to OSX and then redirect the connection to my VM via RDP?
- Or can I somehow tunnel it via SSH?
Please help, thanks in advance.
When you say "detect" what exactly do you mean? Most routers simply have you point a port to an IP. – user186658 – 2016-09-26T18:36:59.383
In regards to this router HG633 it needs to detect a device as it is connected to the subnet, and only then you have the option to make a port forwarding rule for it. In other routers it is flexible and simple just input the IP for the forwarding but it is not possible with the HG633. – anglojojo – 2016-09-27T12:42:20.650
Is the VM using DHCP? – user186658 – 2016-09-27T15:32:10.250
Nope, all internal static addresses. – anglojojo – 2016-09-27T19:12:54.053
If you figured out how the router is querying devices you could work from there. It could be an issue of the VMWare bridge blocking LAN broadcasts. – user186658 – 2016-09-27T19:32:26.123
I run a packet trace on my OSX. I noticed many Spanning-tree-(for-bridges) packets. Then I pinged the router from the VM, and I could see the OSX sending ARP requests on the subnet. (I am not an expert in Networking, so I am not sure why I am seeing STP packets coming from the router). – anglojojo – 2016-09-27T20:10:59.083
I believe the router is querying the MAC addresses, when I tried to ping the VM from the router, I could see that the OSX sent an ARP request for the router address, once the ARP was responded then the Echo reply came from the VM. – anglojojo – 2016-09-27T20:23:17.167
Arp requests are sent commonly, there's no guarantee it was linked to the icmp request. – user186658 – 2016-09-27T21:51:55.333