Using Nard from VirtualBox with a Direct Ethernet Connection

[Caleb Place]

Ok... Maybe that was a bit premature. I did get it working once and the SSH
prompt came up. I executed a few commands to see if it was working (ls, cd,
etc), and everything seemed great. However, now it's stopped working again.
The make ssh command fails with "No IP-addresses found".

I'm probably just getting some super simple step wrong, so I'll just go
over exactly what I have. I'm using the image of Fedora from the Nard
website. It's running LXDE. (I tried multiple distros of Linux before
ending up using the VirtualBox one you provided, so I don't remember if
LXDE is the default or not.) In VirtualBox, I have only one network adapter
set to bridged mode, with the name dropdown set to my computer's doohickey.
Promiscuous mode is denied and the cable connected box is checked.

On the actual Linux side, I have a single connection in the settings. IPv4
is set to manual, and the address/netmask/gateway is
192.168.10.1/255.255.255.0/0.0.0.0 (the last field was set by the computer
after I left the field blank). Under "Routes..." I have a single route set
to 192.168.10.1/255.255.255.0/blank/blank for
address/netmask/gateway/metric.

As for the Nard SD card, I only set the settings as you wrote. It's on
static mode, with 192.168.10.2 as the IP and 255.255.255.0 as the netmask.
It seems to start up correctly (the light starts blinking regularly after a
short wait when plugging it in), but when I try to use `make ssh' it won't
show up. I have changed absolutely nothing else in the Nard tree, SD card,
or anything else. What am I doing wrong?

On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 8:02 AM, Caleb Place <calebplace811 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> AWESOMESAUCE!
>
> Working excellently. Time to code up some E-ink typewriter goodness!
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 7:23 AM, Ronny Nilsson <
> rln-nard at arbetsmyra.dyndns.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi
>> Try like this:
>>
>> eth0proto="static"
>> eth0ip0="192.168.10.2"
>> eth0mask0="255.255.255.0"
>> eth0defgw=""
>> eth0dns1=""
>> eth0dns2=""
>>
>> /Ronny
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------
>> > Thanks for the reply. I'm definitely not a network guru, so what should
>> go
>> > in the fields below it? I'm assuming eth0ip0 should be the IP, but what
>> > about mask, defgw, dns1, and dns2? Do I need to set them?
>> >
>> > On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 5:34 AM, Ronny Nilsson <
>> >
>> > rln-nard at arbetsmyra.dyndns.org> wrote:
>> > > Hi
>> > > I understand better now. The simplest method would be using fixed IP
>> > > addresses. For example, configure Fedora to use 192.168.10.1 and the
>> > > Raspberry 192.168.10.2 There are two caveats though:
>> > >
>> > > 1) VirtualBox and Fedroa probably need to use "Bridged" networking
>> > >         Menu > Machine > Settings > Network > Adapter 1 > Attached to
>> > >
>> > > 2) Setting a fixed IP in Nard can be done in the file
>> > >         SD-card/settings/network
>> > >         http://www.arbetsmyra.dyndns.org/nard/#devsettingsnet
>> > > It's a text file which is easy to understand. You can move the
>> SD-card to
>> > > your
>> > > PC and edit the file in Windows - but, you need to use a text editor
>> that
>> > > understands Unix text file format. Thus, Notepad won't work. However,
>> the
>> > > free Notepad++ works and probably any text editor designed for real
>> > > programing does.
>> > >
>> > > /Ronny
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > ------------------------------------------
>> > >
>> > > > After reading, I see that I wasn't very clear. What I want to do is
>> > > > *connect the RPi to the computer completely locally with an ethernet
>> > >
>> > > cable*
>> > >
>> > > > (the computer may not even be connected to Wi-Fi) and use make ssh
>> from
>> > > > that. (Local ethernet connection is covered in this StackOverflow
>> post:
>> > > > Hook up Raspberry Pi via ethernet to laptop without router?
>> > > > <
>> > >
>> > >
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16040128/hook-up-raspberry-pi-via-ethe
>> > >r
>> > >
>> > > >net-to-laptop-without-router>). To make matters even better, I'm
>> running
>> > > > Linux from the prepared Fedora image in VirtualBox.
>> > > >
>> > > > - Caleb
>>
>>
>