Hi Ron, I realize you're posting your message over and over again because no one has answered you. Let's see if this helps ...
First of all, you should read the VirtualBox documentation. It discusses setting up Host Interface networking. Although not too well so I understand your frustration. Here's how I currently have my environment working. Please keep in mind that I'm disabling the firewall on my machine for this test. This is _not_ how you want to setup your environment. ::::::::::::: ::: setup ::: ::::::::::::: #!/bin/sh # # Disable all Firewall rules - bad bad bad ... but only for tesing purposes ... # iptables -F iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT # # Below: # # pablo - my user id # 192.168.25.199 - the static IP address of my Host O/S # eth0 - the network interface card on my Host O/S # 192.168.25.1 - the default gw of my Host O/S # tunctl -t tap0 -u pablo brctl addbr br0 ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 promisc brctl addif br0 eth0 ifconfig br0 192.168.25.199 netmask 255.255.255.0 brctl addif br0 tap0 ifconfig tap0 up route add default gw 192.168.25.1 :::::::::::::::: ::: teardown ::: :::::::::::::::: ifconfig tap0 down brctl delif br0 tap0 brctl delif br0 eth0 ifconfig br0 down brctl delbr br0 tunctl -d tap0 ifconfig eth0 -promisc /etc/init.d/network restart -pablo _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
