I messed up my Networking. Please Help.

StevenC21 · n00b Joined: 07 Jun 2018 Posts: 63

Hey. So, I'm installing Gentoo (obviously), and I used

eccerr0r · Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2018 2:56 pm Post subject:

It's kind of hard for us to tell what it should be... looks "fine" to me. Other than it not working, why do you think it's wrong?

How were you intending it to be configured? Were you using DHCP?
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StevenC21 · n00b Joined: 07 Jun 2018 Posts: 63

I think I'm using DHCP. The issue is that the addresses look wrong to me. In the past, on each and every PC I have ever used on my network, the address has always been 192.168.1.(something).

Also I can't use PuTTY to SSH in.

johngalt · Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2018 3:12 pm Post subject:

You set this up at another location, didn't you, one that used a different IP scheme from 192.168.x.x?

When you did that, did you do the manual networking section of the handbook? If so, the fastest way will probably be for you to go back and just redo that section all over again.

I amt setting my laptop up via DHCP (with a static IP assigned at the router), so every time I boot with the boot media to work on it it gets the same IP address. But that is not necessary, as using

eccerr0r · Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2018 3:13 pm Post subject:

How many ethernet cards do you have, and how are they hooked up?

Did you hardcode 10.0.2.15 somewhere?

Are you using openrc - and if so, how did you write your /etc/conf.d/net ?

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You know, this finally starts to make sense. After serendipitously finding your other post, now it's clear that you're running a VM which would make a very large impact on our responses.

Normally when you use DHCP, you get your main DHCP address.

However now you mention VM. There are modes on your VM host that can fake yet another IP address which you can get on your VM, and this is the IP address you're getting. So now you're getting NAT into NAT. That's why you're getting 10.0.2.15.

You'll need to make a bridge on your host or use macvtap or something like that to share your ip address space as your host. I don't know what VM host you're using, and unfortunately that may likely need to be modified to do what you want.
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StevenC21 · n00b Joined: 07 Jun 2018 Posts: 63

I am using Oracle VirtualBox. Can you assist me with fixing the internet, please? I'm afraid what you are recommending is going over my level of understanding.

NeddySeagoon · inet 10.0.2.15

StevenC21,

dhcp servers can be set up in many ways. They are all equally valid.

eccerr0r · Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2018 11:05 pm Post subject:

How well integrated VB is with host networking? As I do not use VB I'm not much help here.

I've had to jump through hoops for QEMU for my host to be able to share the network with VMs running on the host along with the rest of the network. The bridge configuration required the host to be specially configured, though it may be an artifact of running Linux on Linux; VB might be able to configure the bridge behind the scenes on Windows.

Yeah it appears you have jumped into the deep end, though everyone starts somewhere. Sometimes running on bare metal is easier for learning, I've always hated simulation/emulation for learning, even if I screw up the install on the real machine...
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