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Guest can't connect to Internet in NAT mode

dragon1988 — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 06:44:23 GMT

3 virtual machines are in my network, all running Ubuntu Desktop. I've configured one of them as a router and the other two can ping each other flawlessly in LAN. But after adding a NAT adapter(ens37), when I ping google.com, it still asks my Ubuntu router(ens33) for it. Something wrong with default gateway? How to make it work?

Pinging google from the guest after adding NAT:

PING google.com (216.239.38.120) 56(84) bytes of data.
From _gateway (10.0.0.1) icmp_seq=1 Destination Net Unreachable
From _gateway (10.0.0.1) icmp_seq=2 Destination Net Unreachable

--- google.com ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 0 received, +2 errors, 100% packet loss, time 1002ms

The guest's gateway:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
0.0.0.0         10.0.0.1        0.0.0.0         UG    20100  0        0 ens33
0.0.0.0         192.168.26.2    0.0.0.0         UG    20101  0        0 ens37
10.0.0.0        0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     100    0        0 ens33
169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     1000   0        0 ens33
192.168.26.0    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     101    0        0 ens37

Thanks.

Re: Guest can't connect to Internet in NAT mode

a_p_ — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 09:27:39 GMT

Remove the default gateway for ens33, and configure static routes for internal networks instead.

André

Re: Guest can't connect to Internet in NAT mode

dragon1988 — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 10:24:10 GMT

Thanks, this way it works.

But what was wrong with the default gateway thing?

Re: Guest can't connect to Internet in NAT mode

a_p_ — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 17:41:55 GMT

With two default gateways configured, Ubuntu will use one of them, so that correct routing is either a hit, or miss.

André