How do I use a virtualbox guest machine as a gateway?

Posted by Igor Zinov'yev on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Igor Zinov'yev
Published on 2009-12-25T08:43:21Z Indexed on 2010/03/23 21:53 UTC
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I have a certain problem. I am working on an Ubuntu machine, but I have to use a windows 2003 server guest to connect to a Stonegate VPN to be able to manage our client's website.

I have already asked if I could connect to a Stonegate VPN in Ubuntu, but so far got no answer. And I couldn't connect to it using network manager's strongswan plugin.

So I want to use my guest Win2003 as a gateway to be able to SSH to the remote server. Is that possible?

Thank you very much in advance, if this is possible in any way, it will save me a lot of trouble!

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