Bridging a Host Interface

brisnick · Post by **brisnick** » 14. Nov 2008, 02:00

Hi,

I've followed all the instructions for bridging the Host Interface in Windows, and my Ubuntu guest receives an IP address (the same as the Windows Host) but cannot ping the gateway. i.e.

Windows host IP: 192.168.1.10/24
Linux guest IP: 192.168.1.10/24
Gateway: 192.168.1.254/24

The Windows host can still access the Internet.

Now, if both host and guest have the same IP how can they be two different computers to the network? Essentially I want both to receive different IPs from the DHCP server.

Can anyone help?

Cheers,
brisnick

Post by **dmcgraw** » 14. Nov 2008, 04:04

Cross posting makes people not want to help you.

Post by **Sasquatch** » 14. Nov 2008, 21:54

Does your DHCP server provide IPs based on MAC addresses? If it does, than this is the result of that. It sees the requests coming from one MAC address. With Linux, this wouldn't happen AFAIK. It's just how everything works. If you want to use the Guest with HIF, set a static address on it.

brisnick · Post by **brisnick** » 15. Nov 2008, 07:44

Thanks for the reply.

Sorry about the dup. Just wasn't sure which forum the question belonged in!