Re: Virtualbox Networking Issues

2010-07-15 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Chris Maness  wrote:

> Things I tried:
>
> With all three vbox module inserted into the kernel
>
> NAT, Bridge, with the PC-Net FAST  Not able to ping anything (even the
> gateway)  I also tried ifconfig by hand
> NAT, Bridge, and Host-only with the first intel card on the list.
> Same response as above.
> NAT and Bridge with 2nd Intel card used.  DHCP worked under nat, but
> was unable to ping the outside internet.
> Bridge worked perfectly with DHCP and was able to talk to the outside
> world.  Bridge is preferred anyhow as I can set up a static with a
> public IP for access from the outside world.
>
> My host is headless, so I am running virtualbox headless and it works
> like a champ with the following command:
>
> # VBoxHeadless --vnc --vncport 5902 --startvm FreeBSD
>
> Note:  I had a similar issue with a FreeBSD client running under
> windows being picky as to which card I selected.  This was a couple of
> years ago.  Also, I think I see the same issue with the system time
> running wildly off from net time.  On my old virtualbox system the
> system clock was so unsteady that ntp would not even lock it down.
>

AFAIK, pinging from a VM set to use VirtualBox NAT has never worked on
FreeBSD Host/Guest setup.  TCP/UDP connections generally work though.

This perhaps explains it more, http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/1247

Bridged networking mode hasn't failed me since shortly after it was patched
to work with FreeBSD.  Make sure you are not bridging with wireless NIC's as
I don't think those work yet.

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Re: Virtualbox Networking Issues

2010-07-15 Thread Chris Maness
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Remko Lodder  wrote:
>
> On Jul 16, 2010, at 12:05 AM, Chris Maness wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Remko Lodder  wrote:
>>> On Jul 15, 2010, at 11:57 PM, Chris Maness wrote:
>>>
 I tried the second Intel adapter in the list and it worked under bridge 
 mode.
>>>
>>>
>>> This is really unsatisfying, can you generate an ifconfig -a and report it 
>>> back so that we can see what you did?
>>> did you assign multiple interfaces to the machine? are they all bridged or?
>>>
>>> I want to make sure that others can learn from this, and that is only 
>>> possible when you shed a little light on the
>>> things that you did and what caused problems. would you be able to help us 
>>> with that?
>>>
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>>
>> Yes, I will give a more detailed blow by blow a little latter on.  I
>> am on baby duty right now ;o)
>>
>> Chris
>
> OK that is a fair excuse :) goodluck with that and please tell us what you 
> did and how you did resolve it. It's one of the strenghts
> of email archives, if people hit the search string they might be able to see 
> how you resolved it, and thank you for it later :)
>
> Cheerio
> R
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Things I tried:

With all three vbox module inserted into the kernel

NAT, Bridge, with the PC-Net FAST  Not able to ping anything (even the
gateway)  I also tried ifconfig by hand
NAT, Bridge, and Host-only with the first intel card on the list.
Same response as above.
NAT and Bridge with 2nd Intel card used.  DHCP worked under nat, but
was unable to ping the outside internet.
Bridge worked perfectly with DHCP and was able to talk to the outside
world.  Bridge is preferred anyhow as I can set up a static with a
public IP for access from the outside world.

My host is headless, so I am running virtualbox headless and it works
like a champ with the following command:

# VBoxHeadless --vnc --vncport 5902 --startvm FreeBSD

Note:  I had a similar issue with a FreeBSD client running under
windows being picky as to which card I selected.  This was a couple of
years ago.  Also, I think I see the same issue with the system time
running wildly off from net time.  On my old virtualbox system the
system clock was so unsteady that ntp would not even lock it down.

Thanks,
Chris Maness
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Re: Virtualbox Networking Issues

2010-07-15 Thread Remko Lodder

On Jul 16, 2010, at 12:05 AM, Chris Maness wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Remko Lodder  wrote:
>> On Jul 15, 2010, at 11:57 PM, Chris Maness wrote:
>> 
>>> I tried the second Intel adapter in the list and it worked under bridge 
>>> mode.
>> 
>> 
>> This is really unsatisfying, can you generate an ifconfig -a and report it 
>> back so that we can see what you did?
>> did you assign multiple interfaces to the machine? are they all bridged or?
>> 
>> I want to make sure that others can learn from this, and that is only 
>> possible when you shed a little light on the
>> things that you did and what caused problems. would you be able to help us 
>> with that?
>> 
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>> 
> 
> Yes, I will give a more detailed blow by blow a little latter on.  I
> am on baby duty right now ;o)
> 
> Chris

OK that is a fair excuse :) goodluck with that and please tell us what you did 
and how you did resolve it. It's one of the strenghts
of email archives, if people hit the search string they might be able to see 
how you resolved it, and thank you for it later :)

Cheerio
R

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Re: Virtualbox Networking Issues

2010-07-15 Thread Chris Maness
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Remko Lodder  wrote:
> On Jul 15, 2010, at 11:57 PM, Chris Maness wrote:
>
>> I tried the second Intel adapter in the list and it worked under bridge mode.
>
>
> This is really unsatisfying, can you generate an ifconfig -a and report it 
> back so that we can see what you did?
> did you assign multiple interfaces to the machine? are they all bridged or?
>
> I want to make sure that others can learn from this, and that is only 
> possible when you shed a little light on the
> things that you did and what caused problems. would you be able to help us 
> with that?
>
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Yes, I will give a more detailed blow by blow a little latter on.  I
am on baby duty right now ;o)

Chris
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Re: Virtualbox Networking Issues

2010-07-15 Thread Remko Lodder
On Jul 15, 2010, at 11:57 PM, Chris Maness wrote:

> I tried the second Intel adapter in the list and it worked under bridge mode.


This is really unsatisfying, can you generate an ifconfig -a and report it back 
so that we can see what you did?
did you assign multiple interfaces to the machine? are they all bridged or?

I want to make sure that others can learn from this, and that is only possible 
when you shed a little light on the
things that you did and what caused problems. would you be able to help us with 
that?

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Re: Virtualbox Networking Issues

2010-07-15 Thread Chris Maness
I tried the second Intel adapter in the list and it worked under bridge mode.

Thanks,
Chris
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Re: Virtualbox Networking Issues

2010-07-15 Thread Robert Bonomi

> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:35:23 -0700
> From: Chris Maness 
> Subject: Re: Virtualbox Networking Issues
>
> I am not able to ping anything.  I cannot ping the gateway or the
> host.  I tried bridge, NAT, and host only.
>

Really, not _anything_ ??  how about 127.0.0.1 ?

Have you tried pinging a particular IP address, or only by a
host name?

If you haven't tried by address, please do _that_. and report results.

*WHAT* error message(s) do you gt?  

   1) no route to host
   2) destinationi network unreachable
   3) destination host unreachable

Can you ping things from _outside_ the virtualbox?

We're _not_ mind-readers, you know.  ,grin.

You hae to tell us what _is_ working, as well as what is -not-.

So far, it oculd be aything from a device configuratition issue to
routing table problems to DNS problems

> Chris
>
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Remko Lodder  wrote:
> >
> > On Jul 15, 2010, at 11:20 PM, Chris Maness wrote:
> >
> >> I have all the pertinent kernel modules loaded, and I have tried all
> >> different combination of network settings in virtualbox. =A0This is a
> >> FreeBSD host running on a FreeBSD client.
> >>
> >> Any suggestions appreciated.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Suggestion 1: What are the issues?
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Re: Virtualbox Networking Issues

2010-07-15 Thread Remko Lodder

On Jul 15, 2010, at 11:35 PM, Chris Maness wrote:

> I am not able to ping anything.  I cannot ping the gateway or the
> host.  I tried bridge, NAT, and host only.
> 
> Chris


OK, and what does tcpdump tell you about the interface? is it passing traffic 
at all?

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Re: Virtualbox Networking Issues

2010-07-15 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On 15 July 2010 17:35, Chris Maness  wrote:

> I am not able to ping anything.  I cannot ping the gateway or the
> host.  I tried bridge, NAT, and host only.

Can you provide the output of ifconfig and the contents of rc.conf
from the virtual machine?

(Purpose - to see if the interface exists, what it thinks its link
status is and how it's supposed to get an IP)

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Re: Virtualbox Networking Issues

2010-07-15 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org  Thu Jul 15 16:22:58 2010
> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:20:50 -0700
> From: Chris Maness 
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Virtualbox Networking Issues
>
> I have all the pertinent kernel modules loaded, and I have tried all
> different combination of network settings in virtualbox.  This is a
> FreeBSD host running on a FreeBSD client.
>
> Any suggestions appreciated.

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Rseriously,  You _have_ to itemize what you've done.  You _think_
you have 'all the pertintent kernel modules loaded', but nobody
else can tell whetehr or not that is true.  Similarly, you THINK
youve 'tried all differen combinations', but you obviously haven't
tried the 'right' one. ;)

You need to specify with some _precision_, what you _expect_ to 
accomplish. *details* of what you'vetried, and _precisely_ how the 
results differ from your expectations.

At an absolute minimum, you'll need to provide the output
from 'ifconfig -a'  run _outside_ the virtualbox, and the
output from the same command run _inside_ the virtualbox.
Also 'netstat -nr' from both environments.

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Re: Virtualbox Networking Issues

2010-07-15 Thread Chris Maness
I am not able to ping anything.  I cannot ping the gateway or the
host.  I tried bridge, NAT, and host only.

Chris

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Remko Lodder  wrote:
>
> On Jul 15, 2010, at 11:20 PM, Chris Maness wrote:
>
>> I have all the pertinent kernel modules loaded, and I have tried all
>> different combination of network settings in virtualbox.  This is a
>> FreeBSD host running on a FreeBSD client.
>>
>> Any suggestions appreciated.
>>
>>
>
> Suggestion 1: What are the issues?
>
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Re: Virtualbox Networking Issues

2010-07-15 Thread Remko Lodder

On Jul 15, 2010, at 11:20 PM, Chris Maness wrote:

> I have all the pertinent kernel modules loaded, and I have tried all
> different combination of network settings in virtualbox.  This is a
> FreeBSD host running on a FreeBSD client.
> 
> Any suggestions appreciated.
> 
> 

Suggestion 1: What are the issues?

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Virtualbox Networking Issues

2010-07-15 Thread Chris Maness
I have all the pertinent kernel modules loaded, and I have tried all
different combination of network settings in virtualbox.  This is a
FreeBSD host running on a FreeBSD client.

Any suggestions appreciated.

Thanks,
Chris Maness
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freebsd networking issues

2008-07-27 Thread gahn
hello:

i have two interfaces installed on my freebsd machine (desktop); one is 
wireless (ath0, facing the internet, 192.168.1.10/24) and another is internal 
(fxp0, 192.168.2.1/24). the internet facing interface of the freebsd works 
fine: from my xp laptop (192.168.1.2), i can ping the interface of freebsd 
(ath0, facing internet, 192.168.1.10). also from the freebsd machine, i can 
ping the default gateway (192.168.1.1) and get access to internet. 

but the second interface doesn't work. from the freebsd machine, i can't ping 
anywhere on the 192.168.2.0/24 except own ip address. with "arp -a" on freebsd, 
i can only see mac address of own interface (fxp0), but not mac addresses of 
other machinese on the net 192.168.2.0/24.

i connected internet side directly (without ath0) with fxp0 and the interface 
works fine.

the bottom line is: on the net 192.168.2.0/24, i can't see any mac addresses. 

in the file /etc/rc.conf, i have the line "gateway_enbale="YES"" but i don't 
think it matters since i have no intention to use the freebsd machine as a 
router anyway.

any ideas?

thanks in advance.



  
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Re: Networking issues

2008-06-09 Thread Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov
Hello,

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Andrew Falanga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have, for some time, been able to ssh into my father's FreeBSD machine in
> the Road Runner network in Central New York.  Last night, I tried so that I
> could fix a problem for him and ssh timed out.  No problem I thought, his
> modem has a different IP than the one I have in my /etc/hosts file, but this
> turned to not be the case.
This may be off-topic, but...

I am using cable internet Time Warner/Road Runner/Earthlink in New
York. However, I have a wireless router behind the cable modem and the
router is registered with dyndns.org.  When I registered with them, I
chose a dns name from them for the router and every time my IP changes
the router sends a request and their database is updated with the new
IP - this is roughly how they work. So I can access machines in my
home network usind a DNS name instead of an IP address. You and your
dad may find this setup useful.

Regards
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Re: Networking issues

2008-06-09 Thread RW
On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 20:19:04 -0600
Andrew Falanga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have, for some time, been able to ssh into my father's FreeBSD
> machine in the Road Runner network in Central New York.  Last night,
> I tried so that I could fix a problem for him and ssh timed out.  No
> problem I thought, his modem has a different IP than the one I have
> in my /etc/hosts file, but this turned to not be the case.
> 
> Well, after some digging, I did a traceroute to his IP address.  The
> packets went all over the place, from San Jose, to Colorado, back to
> San Jose, to Colorado then to Ohio, then to Denver, then to San Jose,
> then to Ohio, etc. (you get the idea). 

This is not necessarily wrong, I used to have a dialup account where
connections within the UK would go often go to London, then go round a
tour of Western Europe, and then come back through London. Although
there probably is a fault in your case since you can't connect.

> First, my DSL modems IP is 71.221.172.38, however, the default route
> appears to be 67.41.38.201.  

I think Point-to-Point links just work like that, with arbitrary
addresses on either end of the link. My address and gateway have only
the first byte in common.

> [/usr/home/andy]
> -> traceroute -n 67.41.38.201
> traceroute to 67.41.38.201 (67.41.38.201), 64 hops max, 52 byte
> packets 1  * * *
>  2  67.41.38.201  40.303 ms *  39.421 ms
> 
> Why on earth would there be delays on the first hop when not using
> name resolution?

I don't see what name resolution has to do with the delay,  the 39ms is
the round-trip time to the gateway at the ISP.


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Networking issues

2008-06-08 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hello,

I have, for some time, been able to ssh into my father's FreeBSD machine in 
the Road Runner network in Central New York.  Last night, I tried so that I 
could fix a problem for him and ssh timed out.  No problem I thought, his 
modem has a different IP than the one I have in my /etc/hosts file, but this 
turned to not be the case.

Well, after some digging, I did a traceroute to his IP address.  The packets 
went all over the place, from San Jose, to Colorado, back to San Jose, to 
Colorado then to Ohio, then to Denver, then to San Jose, then to Ohio, etc. 
(you get the idea).  Eventually, traceroute was just lost and confused and I 
hit ctrl-c.  Thinking the problem would work itself out, I decided to wait 
and try again tonight however, I'm having the same problem tonight.

Obviously, though, I can use my Internet connection (after all, the 
e-mail . . .), but why can't I get to his IP address.  For kicks and grins 
tonight, I logged onto my DSL modem and looked at it's routing table.  I 
found some interesting information.

First, my DSL modems IP is 71.221.172.38, however, the default route appears 
to be 67.41.38.201.  Obviously, I've got to cross at least one network to get 
to this default route in the first place.  I'm assuming this is the default 
route because it appears in the routing table as such:

destnetmask gateway
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 67.41.38.201

Now, here's the output of traceroute (with name resolution turned off):

[/usr/home/andy]
-> traceroute -n 67.41.38.201
traceroute to 67.41.38.201 (67.41.38.201), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
 1  * * *
 2  67.41.38.201  40.303 ms *  39.421 ms

Why on earth would there be delays on the first hop when not using name 
resolution?

Ok, now my machines setup: my DSL modem is the router (as you all knew).  It 
also acts as a DHCP server but my FreeBSD machine is setup as static IP.  The 
local, private, IP network is 192.168.0.0/24 with the DSL modem as 
192.168.0.1 and my box is statically assigned 192.168.0.10.

Any thoughts as what might be wrong on my end before I start bugging my ISP?

Thanks,
Andy
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Re: Odd Keyboard, mouse, networking issues

2008-03-27 Thread Matthew Seaman

Outback Dingo wrote:

I installed FreeBSD 7 on a IBM thinkpad Z60M,  Xorg from ports, 3 different
window managers, kde, xfce4 and fvwm-crystal
in console, there is no issue

in X anytime i type something on the keyboard, anything, regardelss of being
in a console or in firefox

the text doesnt display, or execute until i move the mouse

ie.. in a console under X if i were to type

ps ax

nothing would print, or execute until i moved the mouse, then it prints and
executes
in firefox, i can type in a full url in the address bar, nothing types or
prints until i move the mouse
if i click file, the menu doesnt open until i move the mouse ever so
slightly.
This occurs in all window managers, both xfce and fvwm-crystal, which leads
me to think this is an
OS problem or a port installed the all window managers use.. ie... dbus? fam
? hal ?
its quite odd and disturbing since i used kde3 on FreeBSD-7-PRERELEASE and
BETAs for months
this same laptop has run FreeBSD fine for 2 years i blew away the old
installation to install a fresh system
all ports are built from ports im connected to the intenet via wireless
( iwi0 ) and have a usb mouse ( logitech ) video for X is ATI
Ive had the same hardware for the longest time, a fresh install and a fresh
set of packages on 7 is now creating havoc
even networking seems choppy unless i am moving the mouse, like during a
download, console doesnt update until the mouse moves


any thought or ideas on where to start looking ? dmesg attached


It's a known issue under discussion in the freebsd-x11 list at the moment.
Something in the latest gnome upgrade went a bit askew, and hal is running
rampant and causing havoc.

Some suggested fixes are:

  * Reconfigure Xorg so it recognises your mouse as /dev/usm0 (for USB mice)
or /dev/psm0 (for ps/2 mice) rather than /dev/sysmouse

  * Apply a patch to the sysutils/hal port created by Joe Marcus Clarke -- see
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2008-March/006210.html

  * Recompile x11-servers/xorg-server after toggling off the HAL support in the
OPTIONS dialogue.

However, all of these are still in really the very early stages of debugging and
solving this problem.  Any of the proposed solutions has undesirable side 
effects
which may or may not preclude your being able to use them.  I recommend that you
read the entire thread 'X pausing until mouse move' starting here:

 http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2008-March/006179.html

so you understand the pros and cons as well as is possible before trying 
anything.

Cheers,

Matthew

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Odd Keyboard, mouse, networking issues

2008-03-27 Thread Outback Dingo
I installed FreeBSD 7 on a IBM thinkpad Z60M,  Xorg from ports, 3 different
window managers, kde, xfce4 and fvwm-crystal
in console, there is no issue

in X anytime i type something on the keyboard, anything, regardelss of being
in a console or in firefox

the text doesnt display, or execute until i move the mouse

ie.. in a console under X if i were to type

ps ax

nothing would print, or execute until i moved the mouse, then it prints and
executes
in firefox, i can type in a full url in the address bar, nothing types or
prints until i move the mouse
if i click file, the menu doesnt open until i move the mouse ever so
slightly.
This occurs in all window managers, both xfce and fvwm-crystal, which leads
me to think this is an
OS problem or a port installed the all window managers use.. ie... dbus? fam
? hal ?
its quite odd and disturbing since i used kde3 on FreeBSD-7-PRERELEASE and
BETAs for months
this same laptop has run FreeBSD fine for 2 years i blew away the old
installation to install a fresh system
all ports are built from ports im connected to the intenet via wireless
( iwi0 ) and have a usb mouse ( logitech ) video for X is ATI
Ive had the same hardware for the longest time, a fresh install and a fresh
set of packages on 7 is now creating havoc
even networking seems choppy unless i am moving the mouse, like during a
download, console doesnt update until the mouse moves


any thought or ideas on where to start looking ? dmesg attached


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