Re: [uml-user] unreachable machines from virtual host

[David C. <li...@ed...>]

On Sunday 26 September 2004 12:32, young engineer wrote:
> Now iam able to ping the tap device from virtual machine. Iam able to ping
> the actual host machine ip. but iam unable to ping the machine atached with
> network other than the host machine. for example
> my network address of actual host machine is 192.168.0.1
> ip address of tap device created on host is 192.168.2.1
> ip address of virtual machine ethernet device is 192.168.2.2
> From virtual machine im able to ping 192.168.0.1 & 192.168.2.1 but iam
> unjable to ping machines of the network address 192.168.0.X which are
> visible from host machine (192.168.0.1) when i ping 192.168.0.5 , it says
> network unreachable.

That's probably because the other machines on your network have no idea how to 
return packets to 192.168.2.x.  Solutions could be:

- Set up iptables masquerading on the host 
- Set up routing across your whole LAN, so that other machines know to send 
packets for 192.168.2.x to your host machine

David