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I have a network where a router connects an IP camera and a Windows 11 host machine. The host machine contains a VMware virtual machine Linux NAS server (shown below).

The NAS could only find IP cameras in its local network. How could I connect the camera to the virtual machine NAT network adapter network to let the virtual machine see it as a local device? (The VMWare network has to be set to NAT mode for other applications.)

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  • Can you connect by IP address? Do you have a double NAT in the blue block in your diagram?
    – anon
    Commented Nov 21, 2021 at 19:58

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Another possible solution is to set all the devices on the 192.168.x.x ranges with a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0. This should allow all the devices to see each using Layer 2 and their MAC addresses so it shouldn't require special routing or gateway changes.

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  • I would add that in a large network this would be quite noisy, but if you are in a relatively small network environment without too many IP devices, this shouldn't generate too much broadcast noise. Upvote on accepted answer is always appreciated if it helped.
    – spaceman-spiff
    Commented Nov 29, 2021 at 23:00
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You may add to the VM another network adapter that is defined as bridged, so it connects to the 192.168.1.x network. The first adapter will stay as NAT, but the second one will be Bridged, so it has access to the host network.

See the documentation at Add a Bridged Network.

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  • I cant define the IP in the bridge connexion :(
    – Aguid
    Commented Sep 22, 2022 at 13:20

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