Hello David, 1) The vboxnet script does not create the bridge, it just adds the vbox<n> interface to it if it exists.
2) If you already have a reasonably advanced setup and understand what it does, you do not really need to use those scripts, which are there to make things easy for new users. It will be enough to create the bridge and the tap interface yourself (a static tap interface that is) and to tell the VM to use that interface. Regards, Michael David Baron wrote: > I tried following instructions in the 1.5.2 end user manual for using this. > Told be br0 was already there. This is, of course, true, since I put it there > using instructions posted on this list a while back. I have a tap0 using > iptables and a tap0 using bridging available. So no further entries > in /etc/inn > > I set up the vbox0 interface as instructed. Restarted vboxnet. If would not > start br0. I manually started it using the startup script. Now the vbox0 did > not give any error messages. Cool. > > How do I go over to the new methods? These scripts have been around for ages. > > Here is the tap/iptables script: (I am using a pptp ADSL interface so these > things work off ppp0 rather than eth0!) > > sudo modprobe tun > sudo tunctl -t tap0 -u david > sudo ifconfig tap0 10.0.2.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 up > sudo iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE > #sudo ifconfig tap0 up > > Here is the bridged version: > > sudo modprobe tun > sudo tunctl -t tap0 -u david > sudo chmod 666 /dev/net/tun > #sudo ip link set tap0 up > #sudo ip addr add 10.0.2.2/32 dev tap0 > sudo ifconfig tap0 10.0.2.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 up > sudo chmod g+w /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/tap0/proxy_arp > sudo echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/tap0/proxy_arp > sudo chmod g+w /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > sudo echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > sudo parprouted ppp0 tap0 > echo "tap0 bridge started" > > (There is no br0 here so it must have be placed elsewhere. NOT in > the /etc/netwoking/interfaces. Probably should base setup on the tap0 > instructions rather than the bridge instructions?) _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
