On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 00:45:24 +0100
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 08 November 2007, Richard wrote:
> > I've been down this path, Host networking with Vbox OSE does not
> > function, there are packages missing.
>
> That's just not true. It can be made to work fine. See the link to the
> Debian Wiki I posted earlier.
Tis
>
> > you will need to have loaded the kernel devel tools, sorry I dont know
> > the name of the debian package, try
>
> I suspect you mean the kernel-headers package.
>
> > It is well documented forget all about BR0 and tap1 they aren't used.
>
> I would be very interested in how a setup without using a bridge interface
> works though.
>
> Cheers,
> FJP
>
>
See all previous mail on a similar thread between Frank Mehnert and myself
You can use tunctl on earlier versions.
here is my ifconfig with vbox running, host networking:-
ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0E:A6:92:4A:B8
inet addr:77.98.116.123 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20e:a6ff:fe92:4ab8/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:153178 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3055 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:11500269 (10.9 MiB) TX bytes:395682 (386.4 KiB)
Interrupt:16 Base address:0xa000
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:4C:18:75:65
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:19 Base address:0xc000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:196 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:196 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:11322 (11.0 KiB) TX bytes:11322 (11.0 KiB)
vbox0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:FF:F5:D1:01:E9
inet6 addr: fe80::2ff:f5ff:fed1:1e9/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:6 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:500
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
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Best Wishes
Richard Bown
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