Ping works only one-way to host in VM virtualbox

[Petteri_Oksanen]

I am running EXOS VM's in Oracle VirtualBox.

I have a topology in this order: host1-sw1-sw2-host2.

I can ping from host2 to host1, but when I try to ping host1 to host2 the ping fails. I can't ping host2 from sw2 either. Here is snapshot of host1 and sw1:

Here is a snapshot of sw2 and host2:

Switch 1 and 2 are connected through OSPF.
What is the correct way to connect hosts in virtualized network?

I know there is no route to host from 192.168.11.3, but it still reaches 192.168.12.0/24 network, shouldn't it reach to the host also?

Thanks

- Petteri

[Petteri_Oksanen]

Indeed! Thanks, you were very helpful 

[dflouret]

Good to know things are working ok now.

This is great troubleshooting practice! THat's why I love these little things.

[Petteri_Oksanen]

OK, I got it. It was windows firewall in the VM 🙂

I totally forgot that they have integrated firewall's since I have used F-Secure for ages.

Now the windows machines can communicate.

Actually I was not aware that it is possible to capture traffic in virtualbox, that is very handy indeed!

[dflouret]

Do you know that you can capture traffic inside VirtualBox?

You can configure what VB calls network tracing with the following command:
vboxmanage modifyvm --nictraceX on --nictracefileX .pcap

To disable it use:
vboxmanage modifyvm --nictraceX off

That way you can check what's going on at different places in your network...

Can you also post the vboxmanage showvminfo of your Windows PCs?

[Petteri_Oksanen]

They are VM's