[ltp] Re: Linux Mandrake 9.1

[Tod Harter]

On Sunday 30 March 2003 05:50 pm, Ross Patterson wrote:
>
> Host-only networks don't allow the OS in the virtual machine (aka "gues=
t")
> to communicate with the world outside the hosting Linux machine.  If yo=
u
> choose your network adresses carefully and can control routing
> sufficiently, you can get past this problem.  NAT networks work exactly
> like they do anywhere else, like at home with a cable modem and a NATin=
g
> firewall - the guest OS vanishes behind the NAT "box".
>
As I say, what is the difference then between 'host-only' and 'NAT'. In b=
oth=20
VMWare 2.4.x and 4.0 (which are the only ones I've used, i never had acce=
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to 3.x) the two work IDENTICALLY. In either case you set up your host=20
machine's network to do ip masq (NAT) between 'eth0' and 'vmnet1' (or 0 o=
r 8=20
or whichever, it varies depending on exactly how you set up VMWare I gues=
s).=20
In any case I could detect no actual difference in how the two worked exc=
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the name of the interface (vmnet1 vs vmnet8).

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Tod G. Harter
Giant Electronic Brain