Glenn Lagasse wrote:
> * Evan Layton (Evan.Layton at Sun.COM) wrote:
>   
>>> Right, by pinging externally I mean *any* address external from the
>>> virtual machine.  Under NAT, ping just doesn't work for *any* address.
>>> If you need/want to be able to ping addresses outside of your virtual
>>> machine, you have to setup a host network interface.  There are
>>> instructions in the virtualbox docs.
>>>       
>> Not exactly always true. I can ping various machines on the local BRM 
>> network from within virtual box. I am using NAT as well.
>>     
>
> That's (big) news to me.  I haven't bothered trying in some time and I
> haven't seen any news/documentation to suggest that they've implemented
> this feature.  I'll have to test it.  It would be very cool if they've
> 'fixed' this, setting up host interfaces isn't exactly point-and-click.
>
>   
Thank you, Glenn and Evan.

I will try to set up a host interface to see what is going to happen.

Thanks
Jason

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