Bridged Networking

[darrenfinch]

Hi,

I have been struggling with this all morning and I still cannot get this too work now.

I move about between Home and multiple offices, all the time I use the wireless i/face card within the laptop for all connectivity.

There are 3 NAT connections (2 x XP, 1 x Solaris) and 1 Bridged connection (XP).
I bridged the PCI III card to the Atheros Wireless Adapter.

All this was working fine until today, each time I boot the Bridged OS I cannot connect to the internet. I have tried changing the driver to PCI III or PCI II or even the MT adapters (as I have seen reported when I searched this), nothing works!

I can change the Bridge to NAT and everything works fine (I need the Bridged connection to run the CISCO VPN Client).

Typically the Bridged OS is the OS I need at present (my work session).

As a test I built a new image (XP) today with Bridged networking - no network available when I get the image running.

I am running the latest VBox build (3.0.6) on Vista 64 with 4 GB RAM

[Perryg]

Has anything changed from the last time it worked? Did you update the VBox program or anything like that?
If you are having this problem at your work, has anything changed there?
Since NAT is working then the physical connection is working. Bridged requires a router and the VBox bridge adapter/driver.
See if you can ping the router address while in bridged mode. If this persists and you can not find a reason I see no harm in re-installing the VBox program and selecting repair. If the driver became corrupt or is missing this should fix that.

[darrenfinch]

I was talking with one of the engineers here in the lab.

It seems they had a vmware session setup yesterday here with a bridged connection, he could not get out to get WindowsUpdate but as soon as he switched over to NAT the Windows Guest worked fine.

I will have a go reinstalling, but it looks like my problem is more of a company IT thing!

I raise a ticket with the unhelpful desk and grow old and grey waiting for resolution.

Cheers