Creating vms in softlayer network

[masterb56]

Can anybody tell me how to get vmware to work with a Softlayer dedi? I have successfully installed vms before on a different service provider but somehow Softlayer's network is configured differently.

I use vmware for virtualization and the vm is on bridge network.

I input the right details ip, gateway, subnet inside the vm but it still doesn't connect. If I changed to NAT its working - but it uses the dedi's ip. Any way I can make bridging work in this network?

 

[Cheetah]

Softlayer may be blocking the VM mac addresses. You need to contact their support

 

[venZlic]

They have a mac filtered network, i assume.
You might need to use work around for this .GL!

 

[masterb56]

Softlayer may be blocking the VM mac addresses. You need to contact their support

Yeah I have and they said I need portable ip blocks as per:

http://knowledgelayer.softlayer.com/questions/372/Static+and+Portable+IP+blocks

But when they burned my ips, they said I don't actually need portable ips :facepalm:

I know tech support is a fuck up :facepalm: