Problems while trying to simulate network

[warkbt]

Hi, I am trying to simulate a network with 2 hosts and 2 routers like:

H1----R1--------R2----H2

The links can be Ethernet but they must not share physical medium.

What I mean is: if I put a sniffer between R1 and R2, I shouldn't see packets between H1-R1 or H2-R2

With host-only adapter + PCnet-Fast III, the physical medium is share by all machines.

Is this possible with vbox

Thanks in advance for your time.

[baf]

Internal networking lets you create several nets and you can choose which machines are on which net. Also the new 3.0 beta1 allows you to have several host only networks(I think).

[warkbt]

Internal networking lets you create several nets and you can choose which machines are on which net. Also the new 3.0 beta1 allows you to have several host only networks(I think).

Thanks, I never thought it was so easy. Now I will test it.

[baf]

I have check now and having several "host only" networks is only possible on windows hosts.

• Host-only networking. Creation/deletion of host-only adapters are supported
for Windows hosts only presently. On other platforms, there is one fixed hostonly
interface called “vboxnet0” presently. This will change in a future release.