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On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Neil Winchurst wrote: > For some reason I have never noticed this before. I sometimes use VBox to > check out various distros etc. For the first time I have run ifconfig on the > VBox distro. I expected to see a result for the inet address starting with > 192.168. Instead I got 10.0.2.15 which surprised me a bit. > > Is this normal or should I be looking into it? It sounds normal. Two things are important in this context. Firstly, there are three blocks of private networks. Everything starting with 192.168., everything starting with 10. and everything between 172.16. and 172.31. (inclusive) belongs to a private network. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network So the VM you checked has got a local IP address. Secondly, given your question, I assume machines on your local network have an IP address starting with 192.168. So you rightly wonder why the VM is on a different range. This has likely to do with the way the network on the VM is set up. There are various options for this, but the two most commonly used (I'm guessing here) are NAT and Bridged. Ah, I see that Grant has already started to explain this. Well, what he says. It looks like you were using NAT and expecting Bridged. Martijn. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq