Thanks, but VBox 3.0.4 solved my problem: My VPN client is now working with NAT.
Jochen On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Ken Preslan<k...@preslan.org> wrote: > If you're using VirtualBox 2.2.4, you can use Host-Only networking. It > creates an internal network that you can use to communicate between your > host and guest. You set that option the same place you set bridging. > I do this regularly and it works well. > > It seems that in the VirtualBox 3.X series, Host-Only networking > requires an external network to work (at least that the case for Mac > hosts). So, no help there. Maybe they'll fix the bug soon. > > > > > On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 04:00:49PM +0200, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: >> Hi, >> >> the subject may sound silly, but that's basically what I need. >> >> I have Virtualbox installed on a laptop. Usually, the laptop is >> connected to an ethernet, when everything works fine. However, when >> I'm on travel, it is not. In other words, from time to time eth0 (my >> ethernet interface) is not available. As my box is configured for >> bridging on eth0, that means that no network is available. (The actual >> reason might be, that there is no DHCP server available, but be that >> as it may.) >> >> An alternative would of course be NAT. However, my most important >> network client (Nortel Contivity, a VPN client) doesn't work well with >> NAT: I need bridging. >> >> Any ideas, what I might do? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jochen >> >> -- >> Base64 decoding, 300% faster than sun.misc.BASE64Decoder: >> http://archive.netbsd.se/?ml=commons-dev&a=2008-05&t=7522166 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> vbox-users mailing list >> vbox-users@virtualbox.org >> http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users > > -- > Ken Preslan <k...@preslan.org> > > -- Base64 decoding, 300% faster than sun.misc.BASE64Decoder: http://archive.netbsd.se/?ml=commons-dev&a=2008-05&t=7522166 _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
