"Network error: No route to host" While connecting guest RHEL4 using putty

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Hi,

I have installed RHEL4 using vmware workstation..

Host OS: Windows XP
Guest OS: RHEL4

Pls refer step 17 & 18 in below link...
ORACLE-BASE - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and Centos 4 Installation

1) If i choose to assign IP automatically (using DHCP) means, i am able to connect RHEL4 from my windows through putty successfully..

[root@localhost ~]# ifconfig -a |grep "inet addr"
inet addr:192.168.8.129 Bcast:192.168.8.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

2) But if i assign the IP address manually, i am getting "Network error: No route to host" error when i connect RHEL4 from my windows through putty..

[root@localhost ~]# ifconfig -a |grep "inet addr"
inet addr:192.168.1.111 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

Also pls let me know, if i choose IP and hostname manually, what should be the values of
1) Gateway
2) Primary DNS

in miscellaneous settings...

Pls help....

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Try assigning an IP address in the same subnet! Looks like your manual command uses 192.168.1 as compared to ....8 in the DHCP approach.

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Thanks for ur reply RudiC ....

I will try with assigning IP like '192.168.8.111'... But if i assign the IP address manually, it asks to enter the values of 'Gateway & Primary DNS' in miscellaneous settings (i.e., in step 19 in ORACLE-BASE - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and Centos 4 Installation)... Pls let me know what should be the values i need to enter...

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What are the entries when automatically assigned via DHCP? Use those if possible. DNS-servers you also can find in e.g. router's settings, or in your windows config.