One option you have is to create a tunnel for all of the machines to
go to, then you can use one of the machines as a DHCP server, but
you'd need to setup a NAT on your machine (dom0).
On 25 December 2010 18:14, David Pintor <painterman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>> I'm trying to configure a DHCP server in a Fedora virtual box that will
> provide ip addresses to other virtual boxes, so far with no success.
>> These are the steps that i'm following (more or less), if anyone can put me
> in the right direction or send me a good link to do this that would be
> great. Been googling for 3 days, but no joy...
>> - Basically, the DHCP server gets the IP "bridged" from the host, so it will
> be a 192.168.1.x, same range that the host.
> - What I want to do (or I think i need to do) is put my virtual network in a
> different IP range (ie, 192.168.100.x), so it doesnt interfere with the rest
> of pc's in the house.
> - So I thought i might just NAT the address from the host and not bridge it?
> And then i get a 10.0.2.x IP in my virtual box, which can see the internets
> (cool). The ideal would be to have a static IP here (as it's going to be the
> dhcp server), something like 10.0.2.1 would be the ideal. However when I
> change the ip address, the box can't see the internet anymore (ping to
> google fails).
> - I've tried also creating another interface (tun0) on the top of eth0 but
> as soon as the Ip changes, no internet acces either...
>> Hope this makes sense... I think it might be some problem with the routing
> table, but not sure. I am unfortunately quite a newby in network stuff and
> all this seems like a highly complex task to do, even though it might be
> straight forward enough... Any tips are welcome. I might have forgotten to
> post important information too - if so please ask, i didnt want to make this
> email too long.
>> Thanks in advance and happy christmas to everyone!!
>> David
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