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February 23, 2005
More on networking a virtual server to its host
Well, not luck with bridging the virtual network.
Since my host is WinXP, the full routing services from Win2K and Win2K3 are not available. The only routing supported is Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) that is crippled to only support 192.168.0.XXX subnets.
So, after changing the local subnet to 192.168.1.XXX, I am able to turn on ICS and now the virtual server can ping both the host and the rest of the network. Name resolution on the host works properly for accessing both the local intranet and the servers on the virtual network. DNS also works fine from the virtual network.
I'm not happy that the virtual network has to use NAT. I'll have to look further into why the virtual network can't attach to one endpoint of a Network Bridge on the host.
Posted by attili at February 23, 2005 09:52 AM