Network woes SOLVED!

[D'Arcy Cain]

On 10/29/20 7:02 AM, D'Arcy Cain wrote:
> Turns out it has nothing to do with virtualization.  It never occurred to me 
> to test that the host could access the Internet since I had no problem 
> connecting and logging in.  However, everything I described for the VM 
> applies to the host as well.  Here is my current setup.

OMG!!!

I can't believe how simple the fix was.  Kind of embarrassing except that 
the error was not mine.

To recap, my system has two networks, a public facing one and a private back 
channel.  I put the public address on the public side and the private 
address on the back one.  Simple.  It is unless the person installing the 
hardware switches the ethernet cables.  The surprising thing is not that it 
failed but that it worked at all.

The one system that this server could connect to was also a VM system albeit 
set up differently.  It must have somehow routed the public address to the 
back channel into what the host thought was the public side.

The world makes sense again.

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