well, I would need the NAT for accessing the internet though. How
would I accomplish this then?


On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Frank Mehnert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sunday 31 August 2008, Frank Mehnert wrote:
>> On Sunday 31 August 2008, Mag Gam wrote:
>> > I am using Debian as my guests and Ubuntu as Host.
>> > What is a TAP interface?
>>
>> TAP device == host interface networking. See the user manual for a
>> detailed description on how to set up this network interface on a
>> Linux host.
>>
>> > I am using PCNET FastIII as my interfaces.
>>
>> So could you check please if there is some difference in the performance
>> if you switch to E1000 instead?
>>
>> For comparison: I have a Debian/Sid host here and a Debian/Etch guest
>> connected with a Ubuntu/Gutsy guest over an internal network. With
>> wget I achieve a data rate of ~48 MByte/s from one VM to the other.
>>
>> You might also check with traceroute in the guest that the network
>> packets are routed only through the internal network interface.
>
> Keep in mind that an internal network interface does not receive
> an IP automatically because there is usually no DHCP server
> attached to such an interface. So you should assign an IP manually,
> for instance:
>
> VM1: ifconfig eth1 192.168.5.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
> VM2: ifconfig eth1 192.168.5.2 netmask 255.255.255.0
>
> I assume that eth0 is the NAT interface on both VMs and eth1 is
> the internal network. You also want to disable the NAT interface
> (perhaps disconnect the network cable in the VM settings) to make
> sure the traffic is NOT routed through the NAT interface.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Frank
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