Bridged Adapter not working

[SlyzertVoltrond]

Hi all,

I'm trying to integrate Koha 3.2 VMWare Virtual Appliance, which is a VMDK image of Koha 3.2 installed on Debian 5.0 Lenny, into a LAN. However, when using "Bridged Adapter"/bridged networking mode, guest OS Debian seems to cannot "capture" host's IP address, which means we cannot access the Koha system, because Koha Management Console reports that an IP Address was not found. I've tried executing this command: sudo sh -c "cat /dev/null > /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules", but still the same.

ifconfig -a shows that network devices "lo" and "eth0" are both already up but "eth0" doesn't have an "inet addr", only "inet6 addr", which is a MAC address I think.

The server(computer) is connected to a 3Com OfficeConnect Fast Ethernet Hub 8, while all the clients are connected to Cisco Systems's Catalyst 3750 series switch, and this network uses private IPv4 network ranges of 172.30.217.0-172.30.217.255 and a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0

But when I tried connecting the server to a home router(with DHCP on), Debian can detect a Bridged Adapter's IP address just fine. This makes me think there's something wrong with the network/switch setup or something. Does anyone have any ideas how we can make Bridged Adapter work with the above setup?

VirtualBox version: 3.2.10
Host OS: Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition SP2
Host Network Adapters: Broadcom BCM5708C NetXtreme II GigE (NDIS VBD Client) and Broadcom BCM5708C NetXtreme II GigE (NDIS VBD Client) #2

I'm totally clueless when it comes to networking. It wasn't me who set it all up, so I'm not sure if I described the network setup right...

[fixedwheel]

Hi,

ifconfig -a shows that network devices "lo" and "eth0" are both already up but "eth0" doesn't have an "inet addr", only "inet6 addr",

so its probably set up to do DHCP and doesn't get a response from nonexisting DHCP server?

you may want to set up static addressing => http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/po4 ... _static_ip