Opened 10 years ago
Closed 9 years ago
#13288 closed defect (invalid)
Host-only network adapter causes conflicts, lies about disabled status
| Reported by: | scovich | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | network/hostif | Version: | VirtualBox 4.3.14 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | Linux | Host type: | Windows |
Description
After installing VirtualBox on my Win7/x64 machine, I noticed that I can no longer send email. Thunderbird produces the message "An error occurred sending mail: The mail server sent an incorrect greeting: 4.3.2 Connection rate limit exceeded.."
I had never seen this error before until installing VirtualBox, and the error started popping up immediately afterward. Unfortunately, disabling the host-only network adapter does not fix the problem. I actually don't think the adapter is disabled at all, though: the guest can access the internet just fine with it disabled. Connecting to a VPN fixes the problem, but the guest cannot access the network while the host is connected to the VPN.
Google turned up nothing, nor did a bug search. Bug #8698 seemed similar, though, and I tried changing the metric as advised in the comments there; no luck, the behavior persists. VBox.log contains nothing related to networking (just a ton of messages about seamless mode and window resizing).
I realize the true test would be to uninstall VirtualBox and see if the problem goes away, but that would undo many hours of work to get the thing running so I didn't try it.
Happy to try workarounds and/or diagnose further, but currently out of ideas...
Change History (2)
comment:1 by , 10 years ago
comment:2 by , 9 years ago
| Component: | network/NAT → network/hostif |
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| Resolution: | → invalid |
| Status: | new → closed |
If necessary, please, reopen with more details.
What is the network attachment that the guest uses? Please, attach VM config - the *.vbox file. Do you have any mail software in the guest configured to access your SMTP server?