problem about the connection between windows XP and virtual machine linux

[jiandifeng]

XP+centos 4.8 （vmware），connection mode：bridge，
the configuration of linux are:
1./etc/hosts:
172.18.71.123 linux.jdf.cq localhost.localdomain localhost
2./etc/resolv.conf:
nameserver 202.202.32.33 202.202.32.34
3./etc/sysconfig/network:
NETWORKING=yes
hostname=linux.jdf.cq
4./etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:
DEVICE=eth0
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=172.18.71.123
NETMASK=255.255.252.0
GATEWAY=172.18.68.1

the problem i met is : i can ping linux thought XP,but not thought linux.
（IP of the host(windows XP)：172.18.71.26，netmask：255.255.252.0，gateway：172.18.68.1）

 

[devnull]

Please,

¿who is responding to the ping?


Regards.