I have Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 as Guest on VirtualBox running on Windows 7 host using Bridged Network.
I have being trying to configure a static IP on OEL5 VM Guest at work, as previously the VMs were configured to work within my network at home. I found an unused IP (10.167.190.118) by pinging IP address from the windows host machine. I made the following changes on the OEL5 guest:
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
# Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=static
BROADCAST=10.167.176.1 ##Default Gateway
HWADDR=08:00:27:DE:AF:6D
IPADDR=10.167.190.118 #IPADDR=192.168.1.149
NETMASK=255.255.240.0 ##Subnet Gateway
#NETWORK=192.168.1.0
ONBOOT=yes
/etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
10.167.190.118 oel5-11g.com
# ::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
/etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 10.167.176.1
search localdomain
Now when I stop/start the network daemon, I can ping 10.167.190.118 from the windows machine and can SSH using Putty. However, I'm unable to connect to the internet within the OEL5 guest.
I updated the /etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes
NETWORKING_IPV6=no
HOSTNAME=oel5-11g.com
GATEWAY=10.167.176.1
...but get the error
Bringing up interface eth0: RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
when running the network start command.
I have tried googling the issue but have got as far as being able to SSH into OEL5 guest using Putty from host. What changes do I need to make to ensure I can connect to the internet via the OEL5 guest?
Additional information:
ipconfig from host:
Windows IP Configuration
Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnec
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : uk.oracle.com
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : uk.oracle.com
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 10.167.190.117
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.240.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.167.176.1
Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet1:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.231.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet8:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.233.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
Ethernet adapter VirtualBox Host-Only Network:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.56.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
ifconfig from OEL5 guest
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:DE:AF:6D
inet addr:10.167.190.118 Bcast:10.167.176.1 Mask:255.255.240.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:193187 errors:0 dropped:14987 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:697 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:23047971 (21.9 MiB) TX bytes:82847 (80.9 KiB)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1256 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1256 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3085266 (2.9 MiB) TX bytes:3085266 (2.9 MiB)
I'm new to Linux and Vitualbox with limited knowledge of networks so, any help would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks in advance.