VirtualBox networking issue on intrepid

[drew einhorn]

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 11:37 AM, drew einhorn <drew.einhorn at gmail.com>wrote:

> Nope,
>
> First subnet is 172.24.1.0/24
> Second subnet is 172.24.2.0/24
>
> Good suggestion, I should have been smart enough to check that earlier.
> But that is not it.
>

Although I have seen buggy implementations that ignored anything
other than the default netmask /12 for the the 172.24.0.0

It's a long shot, but that gives me an idea for something to test.

But first, I have to find the admin password for that access point


>
>
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 10:49 AM, drew einhorn <drew.einhorn at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > My laptop is set up for dhcp with a wired connection to the local
>> network.
>> >
>> > VirtualBox is installed on the laptop using NAT networking and it works.
>> >
>> > If I take the laptop to another location, and use the wireless to
>> connect to
>> > another network and establish a connection using dhcp, I get an ipnumber
>> in
>> > a different subnet. Networking works fine on the laptop but not from
>> within
>> > the virtualbox virtual machine (Windows 2000).  If I take the laptop
>> back to
>> > the original location and plug back into the wired network everything
>> works
>> > againfrom both the intrepid host os  and from within virtualbox  guest.
>> >
>> > Obviously something needs to be reset when I move, but so far nothing
>> I've
>> > tried works.
>> >
>> > I did not have this problem on hardy.
>>
>> Any chance the subnet the virtual machine is on happens to be the same
>> subnet the real machine ends up on when you move it?
>>
>> That would cause an issue similar to what you are reporting...
>>
>> Brian
>>
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