-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Is there a particular reason for why your assigning the ip inside your guest statically, and providing your isp's dns server? If not, then you'd find it much easier to assign the ip inside your guest using dhcp, and it should almost certainly work for you also as well.
Greg On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 06:06:23PM -0400, Joe Leo wrote: > Hi All, > > I've installed VBOX 1.4.0 for windows and created a VM running Debian4.0. > I've got Debian linux guest install o.k BUT can't get networking to work. > Can't ping past the VM NAT gateway. > > My host machine works fine and I can get out the internet - So, there's no > network issues from my host machine. I have set up the VM for NAT mode. My > host machine gets it's IP settings from DHCP (External Linksys) - Again, all > works fine here. As I can see the VBOX NAT setup has a network of > 10.0.2.0and a gateway of > 10.0.2.2... With that I set up my guest linux network IP setting as follows: > > # The loopback network interface > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > # The primary network interface > allow-hotplug eth0 > iface eth0 inet static > address 10.0.2.10 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > network 10.0.2.0 > broadcast 10.0.2.255 > gateway 10.0.2.2 > dns-nameservers MyISP-DNS-IP here. > > I can ping the guest machine IP above 10.0.2.10. I can ping the gateway of > 10.0.2.2... But, I can't ping my host machine or the IP off the linksys or > anything outside. > > Also, I've tried the Host Internetworking using bridging and so success > there either. > > I would appreciate anyone assistance to help identify and fix problem. > > Thanks! > Joe > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users - -- 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 v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGv5in7s9z/XlyUyARAkJhAJ99IEveXpKuDdqk03UbmKeqf/+N7ACg1DRB KRnEhvru/zLXoK7UbbgTZ5I= =Jj1d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
