Hi Guys,

I am new to VirtualBox. I was using Vmware, and due to a number of
issues (timing, crashing, io related) decided to give VirtualBox a try,
and I am very impressed. System is nice and responsive. (Although this
morning under heavy load, i did get crashes and I am still
investigating. Adding nohz=off to kernel of guest has seem to improve
things)

The question I have is about the networking. With bridged networking on
vmware, it worked, so I just want to see what I am missing.

I have a VirtualBox Host and a VirtualBox guest running under that host.

Host is Ubunty Gutsy, guest is Gentoo and VirtualBox is 1.52.

I configured a bridge under Gutsy br0 consisting of eth0 and created an
interface called vbox0 with the VBoxAddIF command and added it to the
br0 interface.

The gentoo vm boots up fine, sets an IP address and i can communicate
with the network no problem.  I start a pppoe session on the guest and
it has an external ip address also.

>From the guest, i can access the internal machines no problem. The
problem comes in when trying to use a DNAT on the firewall (running on
the guest).  The connection just never goes through. I am not sure where
it does actually go.

The other thing i've noticed is that people that are connecting to
server from internal, appear as if they come from the virtual host box's
bridged ip. Is this normal behaviour?

eg. everyone comes from this ip imapd: LOGIN, user=removed,
ip=[193.168.87.250], protocol=IMAP

which is the ip address of the virtualbox host.

I would still expect to see them come from their actual IP address.

The only thing I dont do (but have tried) is to put eth0 on the host in
promisc mode. Doesnt seem to make a difference.

Does anyone have a similair issue / know whats going on?

Thanks very much.

Stefan

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