On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Alexey Eromenko <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Christian Alis <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I would like to set up a web server for our institute. This web server is a >> virtual machine (Centos 5.4) running on our internal server (Centos 5.4). >> This >> virtual machine is supposed to be placed in the DMZ and so it has a different >> subnet from the internal server. If it were a real machine, enabling >> proxy-arp >> in our switch would make the virtual machine accessible in the DMZ and >> outside >> network. However, the VM is inaccessible even in the internal subnet. >> >> I am under the impression that this is possible with virtualbox's bridged >> ethernet interface because virtualbox's "network manager" places the real >> interface into promiscuous mode and packets sent and received by and for the >> guests use the guests' MAC and IP address. Is my impression wrong? If not, >> what >> I am doing wrong? Is there a better approach to my problem? >> > > Bridged mode *is* the solution. > > Your guest will be able to connect both-ways (upload+download) to your > real network. > Simply bridge your VM's eth0 to host's "eth0" and you're done. > > If you want more security, then bridge VM's eth0 to host's "eth1" NIC, > but remove IP addresses from host's "eth1". >
This is assuming that your "eth1" host NIC will be dedicated to guest's data, and "eth0" host NIC will be dedicated for controlling your host. -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
