Hi All, I was having difficulties connecting to a network in Parallels. The Parallels virtual interfaces were mentioning self-assigned IP, a clear sign that a proper IP could not be negotiated. I tried all the suggestions mentioned in this forum with fairly poor success and discovered something lately. If I uninstall the Cisco VPN client from my Mac (manually - not fun!), and reboot, the problem is gone. I'm wondering if it's just pure luck or if a bad interaction with the Cisco VPN client could indeed be the root of the problem. Does anybody with the same Self-assigned IP problem also have the Cisco client installed?? Corentin
What is the build number you are using? Check also this thread http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=19407&page=2
Of Parallels or the Cisco client?? I'm using the latest versions that I know of: 5608.0 and 4.9.01 (0100) respectively. I saw a brief mention of a beta for Parallels 4.0 on MacUpdate, but it almost immediately disappeared (and I could never download it). I saw the other thread (and even posted in it) but haven't had a chance to test the workaround that was mentioned there (since I don't have the problem anymore).
Well I made the test. I reinstalled the Cisco client and tried playing with the Network range options. I wasn't able to connect (Host-guest was getting a proper IP in the System prefs but NAT wasn't —*I couldn't connect no matter what setting). I therefore re-uninstalled the Cisco client…*and still wasn't able to connect. Playing around with network range in the preferences allowed both the Host-guest and the NAT interface to get proper IP addresses, but through XP, I still couldn't connect. It looks like it goes deeper than that :-(