On a few occasions, I've run into weirdness with networking on Vista under parallels. I can get a DHCP lease, but I can't ping anything. Yet, I'm clearly connected.
When I ran ipconfig, I discovered that I had two default gateways showing up, the first being 0.0.0.0. Well, that's not going to work! To force your routing table to clear, you can run the following command as an admin in the command prompt within Vista:
route -f
Now that clears all of the gateway entries. You'll need something to get around the network, so simply running ipconfig /release followed by ipconfig /renew and I was good as new and able to surf the network!
About gene
Gene has worked in web development since 1996. He joined Lanlogic in 1999 and is now our web services director. He has been instrumental in helping us develop our hosted solutions offerings at
www.lanlogic.net. Gene has extensive experience with a variety of technologies to support web development, database management, and audio/video streaming. He has consulted in public, private, educational, and governmental sectors totaling over 100 institutions. Gene has a BS in Statistics from CSUEB, lives in Oakland, and plays saxophone in his spare time.