Upgrade to Big Sur now no network connectivity

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Starion
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Upgrade to Big Sur now no network connectivity

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Upgraded to Big Sur this week. Launched VirtualBox 6.1.16 and now I have an IP conflict in Windows that I cannot fix. IP address in Windows always shows self-assigned. Interface is set for DHCP.

No changes were made to the VirtualBox networking configuration from Catalina.

On another annoying note, VirtualBox is back to not remembering the startup window location. It always reverts back to my primary monitor. Arrrrgh. I thought this was fixed and had been working fine through the last couple of versions of VirtualBox.

{Not sure why this post was moved to "VirtualBox on Mac OS X pre-releases". Big Sur is no longer a pre-release.}
Starion
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Re: Upgrade to Big Sur now no network connectivity

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A month since I posted this, still no network connectivity and apparently no fix from VirtualBox.
Starion
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Re: Upgrade to Big Sur now no network connectivity

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More information. Networking works set to NAT. Bridged adapter is what is not working anymore.
NuuKeM
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Re: Upgrade to Big Sur now no network connectivity

Post by NuuKeM »

See post # 100751 labeled "Big Sur: VB works but no internet connection Win10" (I'm not able to post links yet)

In Windows guest, open a command prompt and run the following command:

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netsh interface ipv4 show inter
A similar list will be displayed:

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Idx  Met        MTU          State          Name
---  ---------- ----------   ------------   ---------------------------
1    50         4294967295   connected      Loopback Pseudo-Interface 1
11   10         1500         connected      Local Area Connection
Copy index number (Idx #11 in my case) of the adapter and use it in the following code:

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netsh interface ipv4 set interface 11 dadtransmits=0 store=persistent
Reboot and problem solved.

Apparently, per web-searching "netsh dadtransmits=0", this solution is part of disabling Windows' IP autoconfiguration, which among other possible things sets the IP address to an APIPA address if there is no DHCP server on the network.
Starion
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Re: Upgrade to Big Sur now no network connectivity

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This appears to be the same solution (via another method) that someone else mentioned. Setting the MAC address of the virtual box interface to that of your host's wifi or LAN adapter.
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Re: Upgrade to Big Sur now no network connectivity

Post by mpack »

Starion wrote:Setting the MAC address of the virtual box interface to that of your host's wifi or LAN adapter.
That would be illegal. You can't have two PCs on a switch (bridged is just a software switch) with the same MAC address. At best only one of the conflicting nodes will have comms. At worst it will mess up the network.
Starion
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Re: Upgrade to Big Sur now no network connectivity

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That would be illegal. You can't have two PCs on a switch (bridged is just a software switch) with the same MAC address. At best only one of the conflicting nodes will have comms. At worst it will mess up the network.
It is the only solution that has worked so far. And it has not "messed up the network".
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Re: Upgrade to Big Sur now no network connectivity

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Still no official solution to this. Posted solution does not work. MAC address change does.
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Re: Upgrade to Big Sur now no network connectivity

Post by MarcinR »

I'll add another datapoint to this issue.

I've been successfully using Bridged networking on OS X Catalina on with a number of 6.0 and 6.1 versions, up to 6.1.18. It worked great on a Windows 10 guest. I upgraded my laptop to Big Sur, and bridged networking no longer works, in precisely the same way that many others have described. The `dadtransmits=0` trick didn't work for me. Sadly, I need bridged mode since I'm connecting to a device which requires promiscuous mode for some UDP shenanigans.

I have one other computer still on Catalina. I copied my VM over to that one, and bridged networking works fine, so the guest OS isn't the issue.
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