VPN issues and no network connectivity using bridged network

[porosity]

I'm trying to connect to the Cisco VPN client 5.2 on vista 64 host using a windows xp guest.

Using NAT, I get the internet to work in the guest, but I cannot connect to the VPN. It times out and gives me the reason 412: The remote peer is no longer responding, and terminates the connect. I made sure that all the ports were unblocked, and I turned of all firewalls within the host and guest.

I was told I need to use a bridged network... which I see there are plenty of posts of other people having issues as well. I get no internet connectivity when the "attached to" configuration under network from NAT to bridged adapter. I left everything else default, and my ethernet controller is already there by default. Is there anything else I need to do?

I am a first time virtualbox user and I would really appreciate any help you can give me.


Thanks,

[Perryg]

Setup VBox to use Bridged and not NAT.
You also might benefit from the new version of VBox that was released today Ver 2.2.2

[porosity]

Yea i just installed 2.2.0 last night and I upgraded to 2.2.2 today.

Isn't what I described in my post... setting up vbox to use bridged and not NAT? When I use a bridged adapter, my internet does not work within the guest OS.

[Sasquatch]

Please describe how your Host is connected to the internet. If you have a direct connection, meaning without a router, then Bridged Mode will not work, because your ISP only gives you one IP address, and your Host already has that.

[porosity]

Hadn't thought of that. I am directly connected, so no router.

So i need a router in order to connect to cisco's vpn client through the guest? Not possible to connect to it through NAT?

[Perryg]

Hello guys, i'm having trouble connecting my guest os ubuntu to the network using bridged connection.. with NAT i've access to internet and all but when i try to connect as bridged connection to setup a little web server for local testing i can't get IP from dhcp, and doesn't seem to work with static ip either... any guesses ?

thanks!

Since this is not a VPN problem you need to start a new post. Please re-post under Windows guest.

I am going to delete your post to keep it from getting cluttered with unrelated posts.

[Sasquatch]

There are two options the TS can do. One is run the VPN client on the Host itself. The other is buy a router. These things aren't that expensive and are very useful.

[Andreotti]

Same problem here. Cisco VPN worked fine on my XP guest with version 2.14 but fails bigtime with the newer versions.
I tried all network options. Nothing works. Great job
Back to the old 2.14 version I guess....