<p>With constraints as described, Virtualbox is not going to get you an ip address outside your firewall. Best bet is to use an aws node or something like that if you don't have wired or wireless access to an external network.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On May 24, 2012 7:57 PM, "Claude Felizardo" <<a href="mailto:cafelizardo@gmail.com">cafelizardo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I believe there are a couple of people on this mailing list who are using VirtualBox or equiv...<div><br></div><div>Has anyone setup a VirtualBox guest machine so it can access the internet but can not access the host's local network? Basically create a network sandbox.</div>
<div><br></div><div>For example, let's say I want to verify that an internal web server can NOT be accessed from the internet yet I want to be able to access it from my desktop and I don't have access to a machine outside my network to test from. So using VirtualBox, I created a virtual machine running Ubuntu. When I bring up a browser, I'm able to access a web server as if I was connecting directly from my desktop. I want to configure this virtual machine so it has an IP address outside my local network. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Any suggestions? Tried googling but either it can't do it or I'm just not using the right keywords.</div><div><br></div><div>Claude</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
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