[vbox-dev] Internal Networking -- multiple MAC on a single machine

Alexey Eromenko al4321 at gmail.com
Mon May 23 20:53:57 GMT 2011


On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Ribhi Kamal <rbhkamal at gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems like the switch behavior is not simulating a real switch %100. A
> real switch can have multiple MAC addresses on a single port, however, vbox
> internal networking seems to allow only one MAC per machine per interface.
>
> Is that correct?

AFAIK Yes, and VirtualBox 4.1 (Alpha) fixes it, by allowing to
configure what to allow and what to deny.
For now, you can try VDE vSwitch, if you happen to run on Linux host.
(it has no such limit)

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-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"




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