HOST networking failure on Debian 4 amd64 host.

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HOSTIF networking appears not to be working using vbox 2.1.0 on Debian 4 amd64 using internet routeable IPs. I'm using networking which has a netmask of 255.255.240.0 and the gateway is located at x.y.z.1 while my IPs are all x.y.a.b - x.y.c.d (far away from each other, but whithin the netmask). The guest OS is assigned it's IP statically, so is the host. The IPs are tested to work in the host. OpenBSD and Linux guests both have this problem - so that rules out a specific OS problem. Attaching vbox.log from linux guest.

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VBox.log from linux guest.

[Bart Habernickel]

I have the same problem on a hetzner.de dedicated server. I have a public IP, and an extra public subnet. The guests can't reach the gateway, and the gateway can't ping the guest. In NAT mode the internet is reachable.

Here is some extra information:

VBoxManage -v:
2.1.0r41146

uname -a:
Linux Debian-40-etch-64-minimal 2.6.18-6-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Oct 15 10:07:11 UTC 2008 86_64 GNU/Linux

I'd be happy to supply some more, and do some tests.

Regards,

Bart Habernickel

[Bart Habernickel]

Sorry, I posted this in the wrong place earlier...

I have the same problem on a hetzner.de dedicated server. I have a public IP, and an extra public subnet. The guests can't reach the gateway, and the gateway can't ping the guest. In NAT mode the internet is reachable.

Here is some extra information:

VBoxManage -v:
2.1.0r41146

uname -a:
Linux Debian-40-etch-64-minimal 2.6.18-6-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Oct 15 10:07:11 UTC 2008 86_64 GNU/Linux

I'd be happy to supply some more, and do some tests.

Regards,

Bart Habernickel

[Frank Mehnert]

Please could you have a look at #2827 and test the suggested patch to rule out this problem?

[Bart Habernickel]

Replying to frank:

Please could you have a look at #2827 and test the suggested patch to rule out this problem?

Yes, I'm sorry for not mentioning this, but that did fix the problem. My system is running perfectly now, and I'more than happy to have migrated from VMware Server! I love the RDP system!

Thanx for replying

[Frank Mehnert]

Thanks for the feedback. I will close this one as duplicate then.

[Bart Habernickel]

Replying to frank:

Thanks for the feedback. I will close this one as duplicate then.

The description of the other problem has nothing to do with my symptoms. I didn't see any crashes or any malfunctions other than my packets not reaching the host and internet. It was by pure luck that I tried the patch (after 3 evenings of searching for a sollution). Maybe now people will find the solution by the reference in this thread :)