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Accessing a LAMP webserver that's behind a Ubuntu VM acting as a firewall

I currently have two VM's set up in the following manner: /-----------------------\ /-----------------\ | Ubuntu VM | /---------------\ ...
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Tunnel network from VirtualBox to Ubuntu Host

I have Windows VM running in VirtualBox on my Ubuntu host. On the guest VM, I have Pulse Secure VPN to connect to my office network. There is a client for Linux too, but that doesn't work very well. ...
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Can someone explain interactions between iptables, nftables and bpf?

I'm on Ubuntu 20.10 trying to do some routing config for my virtual network, and I'm confused about the interactions between the 3 main types of firewall technology used in modern Linux distros, ...
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Ubuntu can't access the internet

I just installed Ubuntu on my PC and I tried installing my 3G modem USB stick but that didn't work. After days of unending trials and Google searches, I finally found out I could run a Virtual Machine ...
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Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908) ubuntu 16.04

I have seen that there are many questions in this regard but I have not gotten any of the proposed solutions to work with my setting. Although I have secureboot enabled. I tried the following ...
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Help routing traffic trough VirtualBox

I’m trying to build a Hotspot with a WIN 10 laptop, a Cisco Meraki MR-18 Access Point (AP), an Oracle VirtualBox 5.1.4, and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, running as a Virtual Machine (VM), to service the incoming ...
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Network connection from QEmu ARM-Ubuntu Trusty

I am hosting Ubuntu 16.04 on Virtual Box from Windows 10. Inside that Ubuntu 16.04, there is QEmu emulating ARM processor, running Ubuntu Trusty. However, the ARM Ubuntu doesn't have internet ...
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Network problems setting up an Ubuntu server in VirtualBox

Before I get into my problem I would like to start with what I am trying to accomplish in case my approach is non-optimal. I want to setup a virtual environment that mirrors our production ...
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Chrome on Ubuntu running on Virtualbox very slow

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 (64 bit) on Virtualbox 4.2 on Win 7 Host. I'm getting frequent annoying internet issues. I'm using chrome (and previously chromium) and every no and then, the chrome just stop ...
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TPM showing error message

I have configured TPM for my virtual machine with Ubuntu 18.04. root@Virtual-Machine:~# dmesg | grep -i tpm ==> This should show a proper message root@Virtual-Machine:~# journalctl | grep tpm ==&...
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Incredibly bad upload speed towards my IP only

I'm running a VDS (Virtual Dedicated Server) on Ubuntu 16.04. I'm experiencing a very bizarre issue with uploading. Let me try to explain, by using a "map". VDS --> My Local PC = Upload speed is ...
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How to connect to Samba on Ubuntu 18.04?

With Ubuntu 16, connections from Windows 7 to directories shared by Samba work smoothly. After installing Ubuntu 18 and fresh new Samba installation (along with Samba user and pwd), each attempt to ...
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Networking Issue - Ubuntu 18.04

I have an Ubuntu Server (18.04 LTS) VPS setup on a HYPER-V host system.. The Ubuntu network interface is configured as follows: # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system ...
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Inconstant Bandwidth despite Bandwidth Limitation in VirtualBox

In VirtualBox, I have two Ubuntu 18.04 VMs running on an Ubuntu 18.04 host. My target is to simulate network traffic between the two VMs (one as a Server, one as a Client). Therefore I set the VM ...
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How to add host printer (Ubuntu) to Virtualbox (Windows guest)

OK everyone: I have a Windows XP Virtualbox machine, running inside of Ubuntu 16.04. I have a network printer successfully working with the Ubuntu host that I'd like to connect to the Virtualbox ...
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Connecting to CheckPoint VPN with 2FA

I'm trying to connect to a CheckPoint VPN which uses two factor authentication (generated token from a mobile device). I'm aware of the snx tool from CheckPoint, and have used it on other VPNs, but ...
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Broken internet on restored Ubuntu VirtualBox VM

I produce some scientific software that I release to other labs as an Ubuntu Server (16.04) VirtualBox VM . The VM includes a webservice so needs to be accessible from other machines on their networks,...
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Setting up second nic on Ubuntu for Virtualbox

I am very much a beginner in the networking realm. I have a server running Ubuntu that has 2 nics. eth0 was the primary and now I am wanting to setup a VM as a webserver and use the second nic to ...
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Newbie in port forwarding

I have an Ubuntu Server 14.04 running VirtualBox with some machines. These machines are OpenStack Fuel installed and I cannot change the NIC interfaces infra ( two hostonly and one NAT ). One of ...
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Linux VirtualBox Lab VLAN tagging

I am in the middle of a learning experience in my network education that I’d like some community insight on. I have set up a virtual lab on my home network but am trying to add physical hosts to the ...
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VirtualBox nat network not starting

I have Virtualbox 4.3.36 on Ubuntu 14.04. I am Trying to make a NAT network work, but I can not start it using VBoxManage, I get this message: VBoxManage natnetwork start --netname NatNetwork ...
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Virtual Box won't allow me to enter base memory

I'm trying to install virtual box in my Ubuntu 15.04 machine. I specifically want to use Windows XP for some project. I used sudo apt-get install virtual box to install Virtual Box. After that I did ...
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no network in ubuntu13 when virtal box is configured with bridged adpater

I am using Ubuntu 13 on virtual box with my host being Windows 8. My aim is I want to ping from host to guest or from any physical machine to guest (Ubuntu).I am able to ping from guest to host but ...
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Unable to locate package mininet

I have installed virtualbox on windows 8 and started ubuntu 14.04 version as virtual machine on virtualbox. Now, through a terminal, I used the commands sudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-x11 and ...
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Unable to browse internet in Genymotion via VM

I have installed Oracle VirtualBox and Genymotion.. I installed Google Nexus using Geymotion inside the VM. I have ethernet LAN networking in my hostel, but I can't connect Google Nexus VM to the ...
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Proxy with terminal

I've set a global proxy from Applications -> Network so firefox has access. I've followed 'apt-get' does not work with Proxy so apt-get also works. But if I try other commands which require ...
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Can't connect to site hosted on Ubuntu Server VM

Yesterday I had my Ubuntu Server VM successfully hosting a website that I could access by typing in the IP of the VM (VirtualBox Bridged adapter) in my client's browser. Today I can't access it. I ...
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Proxy sharing between host and guest in VirtualBox

I installed Ubuntu 12.4 in VirtualBox with Windows Vista host which uses a proxy. I did not configure proxy settings in Ubuntu but Internet is working fine and so are updates. Now, my host browsers ...
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Unable to connect to Ubuntu VM via Putty

I'm new to Ubuntu and I have a Windows machine. I am using Oracle VM Virtualbox and installed Ubuntu Linux server in it and using it. I am trying to connect to this Ubuntu server via Putty from my ...
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Netplan Bridge Does Not Support Multiple Interfaces

Issue: When bridging multiple NICs using netplan, client hosts connected to the bridged NICs cannot communicate with the gateway server. The goal is to have all bridged NICs share the same static IP ...
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zebra.service of quaggga library not active

When I run command sudo service bgpd restart. I received: "A dependence job for bgpd.service failed. see journalctl -xe for detail". When I run journalctl -xe I see that:" bgpd.service: ...
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Ubuntu 23.04: Static ip in interfaces does not persist

I can't assign a static ip in Ubuntu to get host-only network up and running, probably something simple VirtualBox on windows 10 host, ubuntu server 23.04 as guest, no GUI installed on the guest Host-...
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How do I get Ubuntu in VirtualBox to give me a proper IP?

I recently set up a VirtualBox with Ubuntu in it in order to run a server for a game, which I need to access from my Windows on the same PC, where the game is kept. I have absolutely zero knowledge ...
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Network unreachable after Ubuntu VM movement

Setup: I am using VirtualBox 6.1.40 r154048 (Qt5.6.2). Windows 11 host OS. VM is Ubuntu 22.04.1. VM is using HostOnly Network adaptor. Initial Status: Ping was working from Windows to a VM and vice-...
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Connecting 2 Virtualbox VMs to Open vSwitch running on another Virtualbox VM

I have 3 Ubuntu 22.04 VMs created using Virtualbox. My host machine is Windows 10. One of them is running 5G core emulator, and the other one is running UEransim. I was able to connect UE to 5G ...
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Unable to connect to the internet after upgrading to Ubuntu 22.04

I just upgraded my ubuntu version twice till I got to the version 22.04. I needed to do so because I need to install a package that it depends on a package whose version is only available at Ubuntu 22....
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How to connect 2 VMware instance running on same Linux host machine via emulated ethernet cable (accessible via mac address)?

I have a host machine running Linux (ubuntu-18.04). There I have 2 VMware instances configured and the network is configured via NAT. I can ping from VM1 to VM2 (and vice-versa) via their local IPs ...
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LAN connection OK, but No WAN after a reboot. Ubuntu on Mac Virtual Box

LAN OK, but no WAN connection after a reboot. ubu@ubu-VirtualBox:~$ ifconfig enp0s8: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 172.18.1.251 netmask 255....
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What are the issues that may be encountered in created vagrant boxes if I don't use the default virtualbox ip ranges for machines

I am working on Vagrant on my Ubuntu (20.04) and I learnt that the ip range allowed by default is 192.168.56.0/21 and that I can of course remove this restriction and use my own range. I am new to ...
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Traceroute shows request timeout message with stars

When I try to run traceroute in my Ubuntu Virtual Machine (Oracle) it only shows the first hop(self hop) and then it shows * * * and request timed out message traceroute to www.amazon.in (108.158.254....
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2 Network Adapters - pass one through to a VM only

I have 2 networks at home, on my Ubuntu server I want to connect the wired ethernet to the host machine, but then the wireless adapter of the device (which is connected to a different network) to a VM ...
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Cable connected but no internet access on a virtual machine

I don't know if someone here can help me with this here but I will try. I'm using VirtualBox to try Ubuntu, and everything worked correctly, the first, second and third time I installed it, using the ...
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Configure network manager to expose to VM only

I am running Xubuntu 20.10, fresh install. I have researched this but I can't find the correct information. I have 2 separate NICs, one to do DHCP over normal network, the other should only be used by ...
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How to setup a virtual Ubuntu machine (20.04) for external network connection?

I'm trying to setup two virtual machines (both running Ubuntu 20.04 server) on a physical server running Ubuntu 20.04 as well. Both VMs have to be reachable for external network connections via the ...
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OpenDayLight installation error

I tried to install ODL on Ubuntu, I followed all the steps but I got these error messages (I don't know whats the password), please check the image ERROR MSG
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Virtual Ubuntu 18.04 running on Windows 10 with VirtualBox Manager connection volume-limited

Although my Windows 10 machine has stable and fast internet connection, the Ubuntu 18.04 machine running virtually cannot sustain a connection. A stupid Ubuntu trick I can do is to attempt to download ...
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Lubuntu Stuck on "Detecting Network Hardware" in Virtualbox

I am trying to migrate from Windows to Lubuntu. I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro S300, with 2GB RAM, Intel Core2Duo 1.7GHz CPU. Virtualbox 5.2.34 setings are: 512MB RAM, 128MB Graphic, 1 CPU. I've ...
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unable to ping guest 10.0.2.15 on host

I am beginner of ubuntu, and i have installed ubuntu 16.04 on my desktop computer, then installed Vagrant by following steps sudo apt-get install virtualbox sudo apt-get install vagrant vagrant box ...
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NAT not working on virtualbox running ubuntu

I have a Windows 10 machine running Ubuntu 19.04 via Virtualbox 6.0.14. Downloaded the iso, started a new machine and set network to "Nat". This states results in no internet connection (when ...
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Stop ethernet from automatically reconnecting

I have a dual Ethernet connection setup on my computer running Ubuntu 18 in a VM from virtual box. I need to disconnect one or the other occasionally because of lack of routing in some applications. ...
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