-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 05:36:17PM +0100, Christoph Pleger wrote: > Hello, > > I want to use a network bridge for networking on a guest computer. My host > computer has two ethernet ports, eth0 and eth1, so I thought that it is a > good idea to use eth0 exclusively for the network traffic of the host > system and use eth1 exlusively for the network traffic of the guest > system, both systems running a Debian Linux. > > So, I chose eth1 for the network bridge. But after installing the guest > OS, no network traffic is going out from eth1. Though tcpdump shows some > outgoing ARP requests, these requests do not arrive anywhere. > > What can I do to make bridge networking available on eth1? When I change > the bridge device to my host system's eth0, everything is working fine.
You did remember to enable forwarding on the host echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward and put the relevant iptables rules in place if you're using a firewall, right? Greg - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk09xpMACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyB7vwCdEoR5dQ9xM0b2Go3fjKfpac71 bx8An0GlvqYOeeGLIl5MUZts0zmWqHQl =S64y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
