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page_title: Networking
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In order to access the Vagrant environment created, Vagrant exposes
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some high-level networking options for things such as forwarded ports,
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connecting to a public network, or creating a private network.
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# Networking
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In order to access the Vagrant environment created, Vagrant exposes
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some high-level networking options for things such as forwarded ports,
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connecting to a public network, or creating a private network.
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The high-level networking options are meant to define an abstraction that
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works across multiple [providers](/vagrant/docs/providers/). This means that
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you can take your Vagrantfile you used to spin up a VirtualBox machine and
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you can reasonably expect that Vagrantfile to behave the same with something
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like VMware.
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You should first read the [basic usage](/vagrant/docs/networking/basic_usage) page
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and then continue by reading the documentation for a specific networking
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primitive by following the navigation to the left.
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## Advanced Configuration
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In some cases,
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these options are _too_ high-level, and you may want to more finely tune
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and configure the network interfaces of the underlying machine. Most
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providers expose [provider-specific configuration](/vagrant/docs/providers/configuration)
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to do this, so please read the documentation for your specific provider
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to see what options are available.
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-> **For beginners:** It is strongly recommended you use
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only the high-level networking options until you are comfortable
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with the Vagrant workflow and have things working at a basic level.
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Provider-specific network configuration can very quickly lock you out
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of your guest machine if improperly done.
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## Networking Assumptions
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### There is a NAT available
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Vagrant assumes there is an available NAT device on eth0. This ensures
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that Vagrant always has a way of communicating with the guest machine.
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It is possible to change this manually (outside of Vagrant), however,
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this may lead to inconsistent behavior.
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Providers might have additional assumptions. For example, in VirtualBox,
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this assumption means that network adapter 1 is a NAT device.
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