On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Lucian Adrian Grijincu <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > My ISP decided to reduce the number of computers that would connect to > their network on a single connection by mangling with the TTL of IP > packets. > > For now it sets the TTL of all incoming packets to 1. > When a host receives a packet destined for a Virtualbox vm, it will first > decrement the TTL before deciding where to forward it. > Because TTL is now 1 the host will drop the packet. > > This fixes it for me: > iptables -t mangle -A POSTROUTING -j TTL --ttl-set 64 > but it took me a while to come up with the fix. > > It would be nice if the Virtualbox GUI or the manual would > list this work-around (or a better one if someone finds something > better) and, ideally, the GUI could provide a way to enable non > experienced users to run this command automagically. >
Since your situation is a rare one, it should not belong to VBox official docs, but you can write an article, and we may consider putting it here: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/User_HOWTOS -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
