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Re: Need to ping Guest hostonly adapter from Host

Posted: 24. Nov 2011, 17:07
by Perryg
I assume that you are trying to setup a "SNORT" box, am I right?
If so have you actually installed and configured snort?

Re: Need to ping Guest hostonly adapter from Host

Posted: 24. Nov 2011, 17:26
by bala150985
Yes, My snort is working fine as shown in the Diagram, Now I want my host machine to report to SNORT VM before my browser traffic could go out to the Internet.

Re: Need to ping Guest hostonly adapter from Host

Posted: 24. Nov 2011, 17:35
by Perryg
Well then you should ask the SNORT people what the problem is. You do know that the intent of SNORT is to actually block requests that are deemed to be not acceptable right?

Re: Need to ping Guest hostonly adapter from Host

Posted: 24. Nov 2011, 17:54
by bala150985
If Snort was the problem then the configuration shown in the diagram above should not work. I tried the same kind of configuration with the base OS of Windows, over there I was able to ping the Host Only interface of Guest SNORT.

Have a look at this 60 second Video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQheXEfN1PE

Re: Need to ping Guest hostonly adapter from Host

Posted: 24. Nov 2011, 18:14
by bala150985
Hi Perry,

You have helped me a lot :D At last I found out what is really going on with my machine.

Whenever my eth0 of host is up Firestarter is starting up and is blocking all the packets from going to the SNORT vm. I will follow up with the firewall guys from here on, Once again thanks a lot for your help.

How do I mark this post as resolved ?

Re: Need to ping Guest hostonly adapter from Host

Posted: 24. Nov 2011, 18:17
by Perryg
Edit the original title.