SonicWall VPN install breaks VMWare Player Bridged Networking

Couldn’t connect to my VMWare image locally, although I could ping everything else on the network from both the VMWare image as well as my local machine. I had just installed SonicWall VPN but I didn’t put it together until I came across this post while troubleshooting. Basically, DNE Lightweight Filter was installed with the VPN which broke the Bridge Networking.

My first search was “Can’t Ping IP of local VM”. Hope this helps someone else.

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Change ALL the passwords! Use a password manager, it makes life easier.

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Change field length in SLX Admin

You can enable editing of the field length property by issuing the following SQL in Admin:

update sectabledefs set userdef = 'T' where tablename = '[table]' and fieldname='[field]'

Make the change in DB admin, then run:

update sectabledefs set userdef = 'F' where tablename = '[table]' and fieldname='[field]'

Update the entity in Application Architect, rebuild and redeploy. Double-check length restrictions of any related controls.