On date Thursday 2007-11-08 00:45:24 +0100, Frans Pop 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.
I confirm this. You don't have the VBoxAddIF script, but you can
still a virtual bridge, as I did and explained in the previous posts.
The bridge is created with the brctl command from the bridge-utils, like this:
brctl addbr <bridge>
Then you have to attach the *physical* interface to the bridge, for
example like this:
brctl addbr <bridge> <physical interface>
In order to create a guest network interface interface you need to create
a corresponding tap interface *on the host*, with the uml-utilities tunctl
command:
tunctl -t <vbox interface> -u <user>
(BTW what the tun/tap terms really means? Has someone a basic
explanation for them?)
then you have to enable such interfaces with:
ifconfig <vbox interface> up
and finally connect them to the virtual bridge:
brctl addbr <bridge> <vbox interface>
The final configuration might look like this:
Internal virtual lan
...
|
|eth0
+-------------------+
| |
| Guest VM |
| |
+-------------------+
|eth1 <-> vbox0
|
|
|
| +-----------------------+
| | |
Virtual | DHCP server |
Bridge ----------------| Internet GW |----------
Internet
br0 +-----------------------+
|
|
|
|
|eth2 (physical interface)
+-------------------+
| |
| HOST |
| |
+-------------------+
Then you have to setup the various routing tables for each node of the
net.
> > 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.
Me too.
[...]
Thanks for your replies.
Best regards.
--
Stefano Sabatini
Linux user number 337176 (see http://counter.li.org)
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