How do I configure routing table to add correct gateway?

Question

I'm getting this error when I try to ping 8.8.8.8 from my Virtual Machine:

PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 172.30.8.135: icmp_seq=1 Redirect Host(New nexthop: 172.30.8.254)
From 172.30.8.135: icmp_seq=2 Redirect Host(New nexthop: 172.30.8.254)

When I try wget http://www.google.com I get failed: connection timed out.

This is the output of route -n:

Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
172.30.8.0      0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
0.0.0.0      172.30.8.135       0.0.0.0   UG     0      100       0 eth0

This is how my network looks like: I have created br0 as a bridge over eth0 to run this VM. The host has this IP 172.30.8.135.

The host has access to internet through eth0 and this is the output of route inside the host:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
172.30.8.0      0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 br0
0.0.0.0         172.30.8.254    0.0.0.0         UG    100    0        0 br0

Thanks in advance for any clues on this!

Answer 1

eth0 needs to be in promisc mode to pass traffic to the bridge

my setup is physical eth0 in promisc with no ip address, br0 with an dhcp ip and using the bridge as my "interface" for the hardware machine with a route to the gateway from dhcp, then a tap interface added to the bridge and this is used as a "bridged" interface in the virtualization product. does that help?

a tutorial on setting up virtualization with tap interfaces and reachability: http://www.blindhog.net/linux-bridging-for-gns3-lan-communications/