VPC and Tiger(shared networking)

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goorchid - 27 Apr 2005 18:25 GMT

I use VPC to access a web based imaging program. Works great now. I
read that Virtual switch will not work with Tiger. If I use shared
networking as an alternative, I can connect to my VPN site, but cannot
connect to the web page I need using IE. Using shared networking, I
can connect to web pages without problem, just not using the VPN. Again
virtual switch works fine, but I fear I will lose this ability with
Tiger. Any suggestions?

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Shallen - 27 Apr 2005 19:55 GMT

I agree I would wait, especially if it is critical that you use virtual
switch. I have been doing some reading and it seems they are aware
that this will not work and have indicated a patch may fix it, but this
could take 2-3 months to develop.
http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/42236.html

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goorchid - 28 Apr 2005 01:01 GMT

> I agree I would wait, especially if it is critical that you use virtual
> switch. I have been doing some reading and it seems they are aware
> that this will not work and have indicated a patch may fix it, but this
> could take 2-3 months to develop.
> http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/42236.html

I guess my real question is how is virtual switch different from shared
networking. Why does VS allow me to connect to my VPN and then go to
the IP address I need. With shared networking I can only connect to
the VPN. Is there a way around this?

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Barry Margolin - 28 Apr 2005 01:34 GMT

> I guess my real question is how is virtual switch different from shared
> networking. Why does VS allow me to connect to my VPN and then go to
> the IP address I need. With shared networking I can only connect to
> the VPN. Is there a way around this?

When you use shared networking, the host Macintosh is acting like a NAT
router for the virtual machine, with a virtual subnet connecting the
two. Sometimes NAT causes problems for VPNs.

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Tony Kavadias - 28 Apr 2005 14:58 GMT

> I use VPC to access a web based imaging program. Works great now. I
> read that Virtual switch will not work with Tiger. If I use shared
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> virtual switch works fine, but I fear I will lose this ability with
> Tiger. Any suggestions?

Do you have to upgrade to Tiger for any reason? If not, just use Virtual PC
in Panther. It'll still run regardless of whether Tiger gets released or not.

I myself have two partitions on my laptop's hard drive... one for keeping
what's already there, and another as a spare. I plan to put Tiger on
the spare,
and have links to programs that reside on the Panther partition. And when
I have a program that doesn't work on Tiger, I'll reboot into Panther and
work as usual.

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-- tonza.

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VPC and Tiger(shared networking)