Help with bridged networking
Posted: 27. Aug 2010, 09:41
I am trying to set up bridged networking on a Leopard box.
First, NAT works fine, no problems. But I would like to get bridged networking to work for some technical reasons.
First of all, there are no networking problems with the host at all. I've verified that.
Bridged networking on the guest appears to work, partially. The IP of the guest (an XP install) shows up on my router. If I log into the router from the host (or another box on my LAN), I can see the IP of the guest, as if it was another box on the LAN. This is exactly the way bridged networking is supposed to work. Also, I can ping other boxes on my LAN from the guest. But I can't reach anything outside my LAN (the "greater internet") from the host. I can't ping google, either with http://www.google.com or one of its IP addresses (get them with nslookup on the host), for example. No web sites work from the guest.
This is very puzzling. I have a lot of experience with setting up bridged networking on other hosts, including Windows and Linux hosts. Usually, it either works fully or doesn't work at all. I've never had something work only partially like this. But I don't have all that much experience with Mac OS X, most of my experience is with Windows and Linux.
First, NAT works fine, no problems. But I would like to get bridged networking to work for some technical reasons.
First of all, there are no networking problems with the host at all. I've verified that.
Bridged networking on the guest appears to work, partially. The IP of the guest (an XP install) shows up on my router. If I log into the router from the host (or another box on my LAN), I can see the IP of the guest, as if it was another box on the LAN. This is exactly the way bridged networking is supposed to work. Also, I can ping other boxes on my LAN from the guest. But I can't reach anything outside my LAN (the "greater internet") from the host. I can't ping google, either with http://www.google.com or one of its IP addresses (get them with nslookup on the host), for example. No web sites work from the guest.
This is very puzzling. I have a lot of experience with setting up bridged networking on other hosts, including Windows and Linux hosts. Usually, it either works fully or doesn't work at all. I've never had something work only partially like this. But I don't have all that much experience with Mac OS X, most of my experience is with Windows and Linux.