Express Talk and LAN IP with VMWare player virtual NICs

[vanDivX]

as the title says, I installed ET on PC that has VMWare player installed and it has (VMWare) for its own purposes created two LAN NIC addresses besides the one of my hardware NIC

 

my LAN IP is 192.168.1.x sort and VMWare player has created two virtual (I think) LAN IPs 192.168.116.1 and 192.168.196.1

 

 

 

I:\Documents and Settings\B>ipconfig /all

 

Windows system configuration protocol

 

 

Ethernet network adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet8:

 

VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter for VMnet8

Physical address. . . . . . . . . . : 00-50-56-C0-00-08

DHCP protocol alowed . . . . . . : No

IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.116.1

Submask . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

Gateway . . . . . . . . . . :

 

Ethernet network adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet1:

 

VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter for VMnet1

Physical address. . . . . . . . . . : 00-50-56-C0-00-01

DHCP protocol alowed . . . . . . : No

IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.196.1

Submask . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

Gateway . . . . . . . . . . :

 

Ethernet network adapter Connection to local network:

 

NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller

Physical address. . . . . . . . . . : 00-13-D3-CC-06-2C

DHCP protocol alowed . . . . . . : No

IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.x

Submask . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

Gateway . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1

DNS servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 206.47.x.x

206.47.x.x

 

now when I installed Express Talk it latched onto the first IP address which is that of VMWare player 192.168.116.1 and which is on different subnet, I just installed last night and didn't get chance testing the phone by calling with it and I am concerened even if it would work on this IP that it might have some negative effects anyway, like it might degrade voice quality or something because that IP is virtual mapped IP to my real IP of the PC (according to my admitedly feeble understanding of how VMWare operates)

 

there is no way to change this in Express Talk phone's Settings, you can specify public IP if needed but not LAN IP, should I be concerned?

 

vanDivX