-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF7WmkwR2rA+A/LU4RAuzJAJ4lUpcL0v7lA2OHyZFQAC8d1jWofQCgjtXJ W8oTJIohTGmNZEGNLetXxzM= =sFmf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
