I tested my theory tonight, by re doing the vmware-config.pl command and selecting both eth0 and eth1 as network adapters for VMware to use. However, this didn't make any difference, because I could not get my vmware console to connect through the WAN (eth1). It must be something else stopping port 902 from connecting.
I also had a very bad experience with my server. I did a yum upgrade and when I rebooted, I could no longer get connected to the server on eth0 (LAN) so after an hour of frustration, I happended to run vmware-config.pl and at the point it stops VMware the LAN starts working.
Now after doing some more testing, each time I do a yum update where it requires a reconfigure and reboot, I now have to do a vmware-config.pl and take all the defaults to get the eth0 (LAN) to work. Anybody else experiencing the same issues?