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vagif

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Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 37

Virtualbox bridged networking problem

I setup virtualbox with guest os Windows xp, and bridged networking exactly as described here: http://mychael.gotdns.com/blog/2007/05/ … -bridging/

It works fine. I can access internet and other machines on the local network from guest win xp.
But i cannot access it from other machines. It does not ping.
here's my ifconfig:

br0       Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:4C:7C:24:46  
          inet addr:192.168.1.100  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:4cff:fe7c:2446/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:11004743 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:5646750 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:3053240351 (2911.7 Mb)  TX bytes:352965127 (336.6 Mb)

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:4C:7C:24:46  
          inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:4cff:fe7c:2446/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:11049794 errors:1 dropped:20 overruns:1 frame:0
          TX packets:5677693 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:3269623069 (3118.1 Mb)  TX bytes:384737272 (366.9 Mb)
          Interrupt:17 Base address:0xe000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:19 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:19 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:1532 (1.4 Kb)  TX bytes:1532 (1.4 Kb)

tap0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:FF:40:FA:11:63  
          inet6 addr: fe80::2ff:40ff:fefa:1163/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:30976 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:51623 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:500 
          RX bytes:2142995 (2.0 Mb)  TX bytes:62922602 (60.0 Mb)

You see here that that both eth0 and tap0 have ipv6 addresses. I wonder if that's what causing the problem of accessing my guest os from outside.
If so, how do i setup tap0 to hav ipv4 address ?

vagif

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Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 37

Re: Virtualbox bridged networking problem

Solved. It was a firewall on win xp. I switched it off, and all works now.