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Klaus Espenlaub wrote:
> Expected behavior, reported several times and already documented in the 
> manual for the next version. The NAT implementation in VirtualBox is 
> purely user mode. As such it cannot send/receive ping packets (that 
> would require superuser rights, see the permissions of /bin/ping). So 
> VirtualBox currently doesn't even attempt to do normal pings across NAT. 
> Any contributions which change this are welcome (except silly things 
> like simply making VirtualBox SUID root).

Sorry, I read the networking sections of the current user manual and
also scanned the postings of the last few weeks of this mailing list and
did not find a hint on that.

Thank you for the information.

Moritz

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