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Why doesn't NAT Network Port Forwarding work in VirtualBox?

I'm setting up a VPN (LT2P/IPSec) Server in a Windows Server 2022 with RAS. The Server is in a NAT Network (172.16.1.0/24). I added the following NAT Rules: I tried both with the Host IP empty, with ...
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How to map domain:port to ip address in hosts file?

Apache is running on Ubuntu in a Virtual Box guest on a Windows 11 host. I have port 80 from the guest forwarded to port 22222 on the Windows 11 host. The network adapter is set to NAT. I can access ...
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BSOD issue on host windows 11 when switching from NAT to bridged in vbox

Been using vbox for a while after a recent update to vbox 7.0.20, switching from NAT to bridged causing the host machine (win 11) to crash and becomes BSOD. switching back to NAT the system didn't ...
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Is Bridge Mode on Docker the same thing as NAT Network on VirtualBox?

For me they're the same. There's the host that handles the IP's to the virtual machines and they can communicate with each other and with the host, but not see other devices on the Local Network. ...
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In vmworkstation, NAT local and global interface MAC verification

In ARP request, VM vNIC adapter has sender MAC address 00:XX:XX:XX:XX:bb. The IP address of receiver NAT device is 192.168.237.2. The MAC address of NAT from ARP should be 00:XX:XX:XX:12 While ...
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Virtualbox NAT configuration for HTTP port forwarding

Hi I'm successfully installed Ubuntu server on virtualbox in macOS. Now, I want to access the ubuntu localhost either 0.0.0.0:8000 or 127.0.0.1:8080 in my host operating system. I configured NAT port ...
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virtualbox NAT configuration does not work as expected

I set up 2 VMs in virtual box on a centos machines but it looks like NAT configuration does not work as expected. As a foreword I would like to remind what's in the virtualbox manual regarding NAT ...
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VirtualBox NAT Port Forward Localhost or Host-only access Guest

I'd like to port forward my host's localhost at port 4431 to 443 so I can access websites on my Windows 10 guest. However, it seems the NAT Network Adapter only supports explicit definition of the ...
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How to configure VirtualBox NAT network with IPv6?

I am running an externally-acessible server inside a VM. My local router is configured to use DynDNS to map my IP address to a domain I own and to forward packets to ports 80 and 443 to my Windows PC. ...
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VirtualBox Natted Networks & SSH

So I've run out of ideas on troubleshooting this to resolve the problem and figured this was the next stop. In short I'm running Ubuntu within VirtualBox and I'm trying to SSH to the virtual machine ...
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VirtualBox DHCP Server on Nat Network

Could DHCP server set up on Custom Nat Network in VirtualBox? I don't want to use VirtualBox default DHCP server. I want to fully control this service.
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VirtualBox - Internet with "Host-only" over PPP

I have a VM that uses Host-only Network. On the Host Machine I have a ppp0 interface through which I have access to the internet (as additional public IP-address). But if you send traffic from ppp0 to ...
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How to communicate with VirtualBox NAT network from another device

Network scenario Hi, I recently built an AD lab environment called GOAD on GitHub on my secondary PC (PL4YGR0UND) running Ubuntu 22.04 and I don't know how to communicate with VM's inside Virtualbox ...
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How to get wireshark to sniff packets between client and server using VMs attached to NAT Network

I am really new to pen testing. I am using Oracle Virtualbox, and I have three kali linux VMs setup. I am trying to use wireshark on a VM to sniff packets between a Modbus client VM and a Modbus ...
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What are these extra IPs shown when using netdiscover?

I've set up a Metaspolitable2 and a Kali Linux machine in VirtualBox. In network settings, I've set up both as a NAT Network, and I've given the NAT Network a DHCP Range of 172.16.10.0/29. When I do ...
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Why virtual machine gateway ip address ends with xxx.xxx.xxx.2?

Recently, I noticed that my virtual machine gateway IP address is xxx.xxx.xxx.2 instead of xxx.xxx.xxx.1, as the gateway IP address for normal machines is xxx.xxx.xxx.1 . But that's not the case for ...
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Can't find the IP address which should in NAT CIDR

I use virtualbox created a centos7 vm, and there is a nat network adapter with dhcp mode. after I started the vm, it get the IP 10.0.2.15/24, and it can access Internet via gateway 10.0.2.2, but ...
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How to SSH to a to a VirtualBox VM on a Windows host with NAT from another PC on the same LAN?

I have an Ubuntu 20.04 VM (VirtualBox) on a Windows 11 host. The network is attached by NAT. I have port forwarding in VirtualBox as follows: Name | Protocol | Host IP | Host Port | Guest IP | ...
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How to configure VirtualBox NAT to use host WLAN

Is it possible to explicitly tell the VirtualBox NAT connection to use the host's WLAN to provide internet to the guest system? Question background/ my specific problem right now: My VirtualBox guest ...
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open network access to virtualbox guest from host only

I have built a Debian virtual machine running in VirtualBox on a Linux Mint host. I am confused about the choices for networking configuration. I wish to achieve the following behavior: Resolve host ...
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Virtualbox Ubuntu NAT - one VM has internet, other does not

I have one VM that is provided to me. It has NAT and Host-Only-Adapter enabled; it has internet access. I've installed two new VMs: Ubuntu 18.04 and 20. In both cases, I enabled NAT but there was no ...
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Access Internal VM host only network from host in virtualbox

I have a vm network for a project that I must test against pings from the outside, the thing is I can't set it up to check. Here's the layout: Windows Host : VBOX ↑ nat ...
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Workaround for NAT only in Virtualbox using Kali linux

I'm using a Kali on a Virtualbox inside a corporate laptop, I can't use bridged mode so Im stuck with NAT, the issue that I cannot access this kali vm from other assets in the network, as it has a ...
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`traceroute` does not work properly in the NAT mode with port forwarding in VirtualBox

I have the following setup: Adapter: NAT Port forwarding: TCP | host port 2277 | guest port 22 when I traceroute google.com, I get the following result: traceroute google.com traceroute to google.com (...
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Access local machines from Virtualbox VM on VPN

I have a Virtualbox VM running under Windows 7, and connected to a remote VPN through a software called "Check Point". This VPN connection is required to retrieve data from a remote database....
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Access Windows Guest From Mac OS Host VirtualBox

I have problem to access web server on my Guest Machine from Host Machine. So I have Mac OS Catalina as Host Machine and Windows 10 as Guest Machine, also use VirtualBox v6.0.14 I configure my guest ...
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SSH from one VM to anther keeps failing - under same NAT network

I've set up two vm running on same virtualbox host, they are working under same NAT Network and each has grained an IP. Their network setting looks like: In order to make SSH works, I've followed ...
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Cannot forward/nat traffic to vboxnet

We have a guest vagrant/virtualbox machine (ip 192.168.50.10) inside a host (ip 192.168.50.1 and two interfaces, the second one with public ip 104.x.x.x). On the host, we want to forward traffic ...
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VirtualBox Network Adapter/DNS Issues with Wi-Fi

I am experiencing a very weird issue with VirtualBox. Most of the time, my laptop is hardwired to an Ethernet connection. Occasionally, when I'm away from my desk, I have no options besides Wi-Fi. ...
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VirtualBox dhcp server is leasing the same IP to all guest VM's connected to a VirtualBox Nat Network

I created a new nat network with dhcp enable through GUI on my VirtualBox 6.0 and connected 2 Guest VM's to it but keeps assigning the same IP to both VM's even if they are running at the same time. ...
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Cannot ping Google on VirtualBox with NAT routing set up

I am using VirtualBox right now with NAT. I'm not able to ping www.google.com. It says: "Name or service not known." Alright, so the problem is with DNS maybe? Here is my output for ifconfig: ...
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Virtualbox - Turn off one interface using nat network. .

I've a problem. . . I need to connect several VM to the network, the problem is I have less free IP adresses than VM. So the solution I figured out was to create a NAT network, but also in this ...
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NAT interface stops working as soon as host only adapter interface is up

I have two virtual interfaces, one configured as NAT and another as host only adapter. The NAT interface is intended to provide Internet access from inside the virtual box (to pull Docker images, etc) ...
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VirtualBox Networking Options

I'm struggling with understanding the various VB networking options in terms of how they work. I have a Windows 10 Pro laptop with 8GB ram, and my plan is to create/install a few Linux VMs with about ...
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How does virtualbox NAT works

When I select NAT in network settings, my guest vm gets 10.0.2.15 with gateway 10.0.2.2. But I don't see any virtual devices on my host. What does actually perform NAT functions? As I imagine it to ...
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Virtualbox NAT Network port forwarding refuses connection

I created a NAT Network in VirtualBox and from the Ubuntu host I am trying to SSH into the Ubuntu server VM, but I get connection refused. The Ubuntu server VM is connected to the NAT Network using ...
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LAN visible to VirtualBox VM with NAT adapter

https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html Virtualbox official documentation shows this quick reference chart for different networking modes and their capabilities. It clearly marks that VM to Host ...
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Different Networks on same interface in virtual box

I have two VMs connected to the same internal network in virtual box. This internal network is connected to a NAT. The DHCP server is giving an IP only for one VM. I want to configure the other one ...
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Virtualbox guest in NAT mode cannot access hosts by name on the local network

I have a virtualbox guest in NAT mode which cannot seem to resolve hosts on the local LAN. I can get to them by IP, but not by hostname. I realize that switching it into bridged mode would probably ...
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Virtual box NAT , HOST-ONLY and INTERNAL NETWORK

When configured the NAT only then able to browse internet in the guest. But when "adapter 2" setting is enabled and configured with the 'Host Only Network' and "adapter 3" setting is configured with '...
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How to force users create host-only VirtualBox VMs

Managing many users within a security-strict network makes a VM a bad option. If the admin allows the installation of VirtualBox throughout the network, how can admins force users to setup host-only ...
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HOST can't connect to GUEST with NAT networking at Virtualbox but others

It confuses me about NAT networking, but I can use VMware and Parallels Desktop to do that. I knew NAT how it works, just need an explain about this situation. The following is from official ...
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Setting up proxy VM with VirtualBox DNS problems

Using VirtualBox on Ubuntu, I want to connect two Linux (debian 9) VMs together, so that the first one acts as a router for the second one (VM2), whose traffic is completely routed through the first ...
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Nat Network on VirtualBox

Hi is it possible to make my host machine part of a virtualbox nat network? I can make the 2 guests comunicating but not the host. I can see the 2 guests have a pingable Gateway but i cant ping ...
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*Edit* Make virtualbox host only network bidirectional

I have a virtualbox setup with both the host and VM OS as Windows 7. The host and the VM are both connected to the network but have different network IPs. ipconfig on host (including only those ...
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VirtualBox - Bind to specific VLAN/Interface for NAT purposes

On my machine I have 4 Vlans on a single interface, and when setting up networks in the GUI of Virtualbox I can see no way to choose which interface it will sit 'behind' when I create a NAT, or tell ...
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VM works in NAT mode but not bridged mode?

Virtual box running on Windows 10 x64 pro. I have an ubuntu server VM running in bridged mode and it has an active internet connection. However, when I try to run other VMs, while still running the ...
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VirtualBox NAT: ICMP works, TCP doesn't work

I am using VirtualBox 5.1.8 (and 5.1.18) on Windows 7 with guest Kubuntu 16.04 Set up: Guest has only one network interface with mode = NAT Windows Firewall is Off (all profiles, all interfaces) I ...
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Connect two virtualmachines on different host machines

In Virtualbox is it possible to connect two VM's on two separate host machines on the same network using NAT? I currently have two linux boxes (VM's on seperate Host machines) that aren't able to ...
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How to configure avahi in VirtuabBox NAT

I have a VBox Linux guest in NAT networking mode. Both host (also a Linux system) and guest have the avahi-daemon service running. Is there a way to configure the service in the guest so that it does ...
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