Section 6.5 in the 2.1.0 User Manual says how to configure things for "Host Interface Networking". I think they have tried to provide a kernel module (vboxnetflt?) which sniffs packets and decides whether or not to pass them through-- to the guest, to the host, to the real network to which the host is attached... essentially a software version of an ethernet switch is inserted between the host and the real network, and the host and the real network are connected to that software switch, and any guests which come up are also connected to the switch.
I get the impression the vboxnetflt... whatever the netfilter plugin is... has issues when it comes to things like passing ARP requests/replies between the real network and the guest. There is a "Where networking results from 2.1" thread in this vbox-users list which talks about some issues. Larry _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
