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Networking question: Win 7 remote desktop + VPN
Cakemeister:
I got the VirtualBox install to work. I created the virtual machine, installed Windows, Office, and the VPN application. Everything was superdy-duper until I tried connecting with the VPN. No joy. The VPN client must be detecting the virtual machine because I can VPN with another machine.
ChadTower:
That's why I said you might have to use separate NICs to have truly independent IPs. I'm not 100% sure how the IP routing works on a VM.
2600:
I have no experience with VirtualBox.
I know using a VPN inside a VM works and you do not need a separate NIC.
Under the VM applications I've used, most recently VMware, when you select a "bridged" type networking configuration the host OS and the VM OS each have a different MAC address and IP.
What was the problem with the VPN? Did networking work before you tried the VPN software? I assume you installed the VPN application in the VM OS and not on the host. With the VPN application I use, you have to install your VPN configuration files as well so I assume you did that or whatever is the equivalent.
Cakemeister:
I don't recall the exact error that the VPN spit out. But Internet and stuff works fine from the VM.
VPN in installed on the VM, not the physical machine. The VPN is a Cisco application.
I have several extra NICs lying around, I can try using one. Non-gigabit, but that shouldn't matter. I guess I would need to tell the physical machine to use the original NIC and the VM to use the second one. Not sure how to do that.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: 2600 on December 03, 2009, 08:38:11 am ---I have no experience with VirtualBox.
I know using a VPN inside a VM works and you do not need a separate NIC.
--- End quote ---
VPN complicates things. It reassigns IPs. There could easily be some sort of resource conflict using the same MAC after the VPN is in place. Maybe he just hasn't sorted out the configuration yet, as you suggest.
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