Comments on: Setup VMWARE Host as router for Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows XP Guest OS

By: Ludovic Kuty

Ludovic Kuty — Thu, 05 May 2011 10:55:27 +0000

Great tutorial.

Note that the following commands are not strictly necessary:
iptables –append FORWARD –in-interface vmnet1 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -i vmnet1 -s 192.168.2.0/24 -d 192.168.1.1 -j ACCEPT

There are just used if the box is secured and the default policy of the forward and input chains is not accept.

By: S!FE

S!FE — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 16:43:29 +0000

can you put example for virtualbox because i tried but didn’t success .

By: Rashmi Ranjan

Rashmi Ranjan — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 07:28:53 +0000

The above discussion is helpful if we are trying to set up windos as guest and Linux as host. But my requirement is Windos XP is host and linux is guest. Please let me know how do I establish a connection between the machines.

A quick reply would be really very helpful.

By: nixcraft

nixcraft — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 10:42:52 +0000

Peter,

You need to add 1 to /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward (file name is not correct)

Appreciate your post!

By: Peter Burkholder

Peter Burkholder — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 05:22:17 +0000

I got this to work once I remembered:

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_foward

By: nixcraft

nixcraft — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:31:29 +0000

There are many ways to disable su. Simple and easy solution is remove su command or put it to /root directory.

Other solution would be remove executable permission for rest of the world.

By: inam

inam — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 00:36:16 +0000

can root disable the su command on a system