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All was working well connecting from linux guest via windows 10 host on bridged network. Then PC crashed.

Now I can connect fine with NAT connection. However when I switch to bridged connection I ping the router and get no response and and I cannot load a web page.

It says connected. ifconfig shows correct IP address. route shows the correct router address. arp -a shows the router and all other machines on the local network. I can ping all those machines and get a response.

However when I ping the router no response.

Have tried rebooting the router and host; and reinstalled latest virtualbox.

Found a solution.

I pinged from the router to the guest machine. Then it worked fine.

If anyone can explain this please do.

but now it has stopped again and that trick did not work.

I had my router set to allocate 192.168.0.16 to the vbox machine based on the mac address. If I turn this off so it just allocates the next available IP on the lan then it works fine in bridged mode.

So now I have a workaround but it is painful because I am running a server that I want to access from the internet. So each time I start the machine I have to find the IP address and configure the router to direct incoming traffic to it.

I don't understand what is going wrong here. Surely when the router/DHCP server issues a new IP address it should not make any difference whether it is random or static? Yet apparently it does.

How about assigning a static IP to your guest and forget all about changing your router configuration?