Linux – Virtual Machine with Bridged Adapter to Centos not accepting ssh from host machine

I have a bridged connection on VirtualBox from os/x 10.8.5 host to Centos 5.8 client.

But I suspect this is more of a general issue than specific to the host and precise version of linux.

Shown below are the networking info from the VirtualBox and from within the guest

sshd is running on port 22:

[root@oracle-linux ~]# ps -ef | grep sshd | grep -v grep
root      3103     1  0 20:22 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
root     14994  3103  0 21:23 ?        00:00:00 sshd: root@pts/1 

Netstat:

[root@oracle-linux ~]# netstat -an |  grep tcp | grep LIST
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:111                 0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22                  0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:631               0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:25                0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:954                 0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:2207              0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:2208              0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      
tcp        0      0 :::22                       :::*                        LISTEN      

Firewall is disabled:

[root@oracle-linux init.d]# service iptables status
Firewall is stopped.

Here are ip addresses, GUEST (after change to BRIDGE): :

[root@oracle-linux ~]# ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 08:00:27:B9:E5:79  
          inet addr:10.0.15.100  Bcast:10.0.15.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:feb9:e579/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:46 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:6754 (6.5 KiB)

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 08:00:27:B4:86:8A  
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:1064 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1064 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:1799516 (1.7 MiB)  TX bytes:1799516 (1.7 MiB)

HOST:

c1166313@ma2-gbip-lap105's password: 
06:46:37/shared:7 $ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
    options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
    inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 
    inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
    inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 
gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
stf0: flags=0<> mtu 1280
en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    ether b8:f6:b1:15:dd:bf 
    inet6 fe80::baf6:b1ff:fe15:ddbf%en0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 
    inet 10.0.0.7 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255
    media: autoselect
    status: active
p2p0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 2304
    ether 0a:f6:b1:15:dd:bf 
    media: autoselect
    status: inactive
vboxnet0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    ether 0a:00:27:00:00:00 
    inet 192.168.7.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.7.255

I can ssh to the guest from the guest:

root@oracle-linux ~]# ssh 10.0.3.15
The authenticity of host '10.0.3.15 (10.0.3.15)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is ef:08:19:72:95:4d:e5:28:af:f3:6f:54:07:84:ba:04.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added '10.0.3.15' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
root@10.0.3.15's password: 
Last login: Mon Oct 21 21:24:12 2013 from 10.0.15.100

But can NOT ssh from the host to the guest:

18:27:04/shared:11 $ssh  root@10.0.3.15
ssh: connect to host 10.0.15.100 port 22: Operation timed out
lost connection

Here is bridged connection infO;

Adapter 2 is a NAT, shown below

In case NAT is causing any issues, i shut it down and restarted networking.

[root@oracle-linux ~]# /etc/init.d/network restart
Shutting down interface eth0:                              [  OK  ]
Shutting down interface eth1:  

Still No joy..

18:27:04/shared:11 $ssh  root@10.0.3.15
ssh: connect to host 10.0.15.100 port 22: Operation timed out
lost connection

BTW: as part of troubleshooting I brought up a different Centos VM (version 6.2). This other VM is from a different vendor (cloudera) but I configured it also as Bridged adapter. The second VM works fine.

07:03:23/shared:12 $ping  10.0.0.9
PING 10.0.0.9 (10.0.0.9): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 10.0.0.9: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.350 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.0.9: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.337 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.0.9: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.339 ms