Hi all, appreciate this is somewhat convoluted but I'm having difficulty understanding whether I can do what I want to do, and if so how.
My setup is this: Ubuntu VM running on Windows host. One network adapter, NAT.
The Windows host has a wired ethernet adapter and a WiFi interface. The WiFi interface is connected to my router, and the internet, and the ethernet interface is connected to an external IP video device. This device must access the internet via a VPN. The Ubuntu VM is configured to use this VPN connection, which it does.
The question is, how do I make all traffic from the external device go via the guest's VPN? I've tried adding a bridged adapter to the guest, bridged to the host ethernet adapter, but this doesn't work. Perhaps because there's no DHCP server? If anyone has any thoughts I'd be grateful to hear them.
Connecting Host Adaptor via Guest VPN
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Re: Connecting Host Adaptor via Guest VPN
If you weren't using a VM, how does this device usually get set up? And where does the VPN normally run?alsostl wrote:the ethernet interface is connected to an external IP video device. This device must access the internet via a VPN.
I think you're right, there. Bridged behaves like an unmanaged network switch virtually put into the physical network adapter, see Virtualbox Networks: In Pictures: Bridged Adapter. So Bridged will behave the same way a switch would. The VM has to get its IP address from somewhere on the switch's network. It can get the address from a DHCP server or it is set to a static IP address (a hint, there ).alsostl wrote:I've tried adding a bridged adapter to the guest, bridged to the host ethernet adapter, but this doesn't work. Perhaps because there's no DHCP server?
Re: Connecting Host Adaptor via Guest VPN
Thanks for the reply. I think I'm on the right track with this now, the details being outside the scope of Virtualbox. That side of things appears correct.