VirtualBox behind a wireless bridge -- require a static route?

[TheBobs]

Hi All,

I have a virtualbox running on a windows 7 host that is on the other side of a wireless bridged LAN (LAN B). Everything on that side of the bridge can see the virtualbox but nothing on (LAN A) can see it. Any ideas or suggestions greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

-J

P.S. I've attached a diagram to depict the dilemma.

 

[sfx2000]

Hi All,

I have a virtualbox running on a windows 7 host that is on the other side of a wireless bridged LAN (LAN B). Everything on that side of the bridge can see the virtualbox but nothing on (LAN A) can see it. Any ideas or suggestions greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

-J

P.S. I've attached a diagram to depict the dilemma.

yes - you probably want one - and this has little to do with the WLAN forums...

 

[TheBobs]

My apologies -- I've assumed the issue probably a networking issue with the WLAN bridge. Where should this have been posted instead?

I probably do want a route somewhere, the reason I am asking.

 

[TheBobs]

Solved

I can't even pretend to understand why this works, but adding a static route on LAN A's netgear (192.168.10.1) to Lab B's netgear (192.168.10.16) with a metric of 2 resolved this. I can now see the VM on Lan B from Lan A.

 

[sfx2000]

My apologies -- I've assumed the issue probably a networking issue with the WLAN bridge. Where should this have been posted instead?

I probably do want a route somewhere, the reason I am asking.

It's a LAN/WAN/Routing question - the static route should work... been a long time since I've tinkered with VBox (I'm a VMWare user <grin>).

 

[RogerSC]

I can't even pretend to understand why this works, but adding a static route on LAN A's netgear (192.168.10.1) to Lab B's netgear (192.168.10.16) with a metric of 2 resolved this. I can now see the VM on Lan B from Lan A.

Glad that you solved your problem. You might try here in the future:

https://forums.virtualbox.org/