How to ping switch attacted to my laptop from Windows 7 installed in virtual box

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Parvinder
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How to ping switch attacted to my laptop from Windows 7 installed in virtual box

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Hi Guy's

What I have done is that in my laptop I have Ubuntu 16.04 and I have installed virtual box in it.
In virtual box I have installed Windows 7, Now what I am trying to do is that I have a cisco switch attached with my laptop.

IP Address on switch is 192.168.8.100 255.255.255.0

Now I went into windows IP settings and changed it to 192.168.8.200 255.255.255.0

I than tried to ping that switch that is physically connected with my laptop from guest windows 7 that is installed in virtual box, but in ping reply it is saying that destination host is not reachable.
I am not able to ping switch physically connected with my laptop from Windows Os installed in virtual box

Please help me I am new to virtual box I don't know where I am lacking.
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Re: How to ping switch attacted to my laptop from Windows 7 installed in virtual box

Post by Perryg »

Is this a smart switch? Is the host ( not the guest ) in the same subnet and the switch and can it ping the switch?
Parvinder
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Re: How to ping switch attacted to my laptop from Windows 7 installed in virtual box

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Yes host is able to ping that switch but guest is not able to both host and guest ip addresses are in same subnet as of switch also the switch is Cisco 2960.By smart you mean manageable or what ...???
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Re: How to ping switch attacted to my laptop from Windows 7 installed in virtual box

Post by Martin »

Did you set your VM to use brigded networking? Otherwise it would not be "in the same network". ;)
Parvinder
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Re: How to ping switch attacted to my laptop from Windows 7 installed in virtual box

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No I haven't done that, moreover my if config output shows that mt ethernet adaper does not have any ip address

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parvinder@admin-Office:~$ ifconfig
enp7s0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:24:54:b4:0c:5b  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:19 

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:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:1834 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1834 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:172645 (172.6 KB)  TX bytes:172645 (172.6 KB)

virbr0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00  
          inet addr:192.168.122.1  Bcast:192.168.122.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

wlp3s0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 5c:ac:4c:19:9f:c6  
          inet addr:192.168.0.124  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::1c6d:eed3:f361:c69d/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:62800 errors:0 dropped:1 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:29617 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:85826722 (85.8 MB)  TX bytes:2996271 (2.9 MB)
Parvinder
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Re: How to ping switch attacted to my laptop from Windows 7 installed in virtual box

Post by Parvinder »

I think I messed up somewhere in configuration.
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