Michael, I made the change you suggested and that solved the problem. Now br0 gets an address from my dhcp server and "brctl show" now shows eth0 as part of the bridge. Of course, the best test is if the vm works wit Host Interface. It does.
Thanks for your help, Rick Knight ThankMichael Thayer wrote: > Hello Rick, > > I notice that your bridge does not include eth0, as it probably should > do. You could try to replace the line "bridge_ports all tap0" with > "bridge_ports eth0 tap0" - perhaps the first does not work in Dapper. I > will give it a quick try in a VM. > > Regards, > > Michael > > Rick Knight wrote: > >> Michael, Thanks for your reply. Yes, I did do things as per the >> Debian/Ubuntu instruction in the users guide, and as I said in my >> original post, I was able to get this working without any problems on 2 >> other Kubuntu based boxes. >> >> When I run "sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart" the br0 interface is >> not able to get an address from my dhcp server. I use static IP on my >> box, but I do have a dhcp server and if I configure my PC for dhcp >> instead of static, it does find the dhcp server and it does get an address. >> >> This is what ifconfig produces... >> br0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 1E:A4:D2:B9:A7:EB >> inet6 addr: fe80::1ca4:d2ff:feb9:a7eb/64 Scope:Link >> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 >> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 >> TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 >> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 >> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:2520 (2.4 KiB) >> >> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:2C:A0:4A:90 >> inet addr:172.16.88.25 Bcast:172.16.89.255 Mask:255.255.254.0 >> inet6 addr: fe80::250:2cff:fea0:4a90/64 Scope:Link >> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 >> RX packets:10198 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 >> TX packets:8050 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 >> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 >> RX bytes:12390667 (11.8 MiB) TX bytes:1010939 (987.2 KiB) >> Interrupt:193 Base address:0xec00 >> >> lo Link encap:Local Loopback >> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 >> inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host >> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 >> RX packets:1562 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 >> TX packets:1562 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 >> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 >> RX bytes:159459 (155.7 KiB) TX bytes:159459 (155.7 KiB) >> >> tap0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 1E:A4:D2:B9:A7:EB >> inet6 addr: fe80::1ca4:d2ff:feb9:a7eb/64 Scope:Link >> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 >> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 >> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:18 overruns:0 carrier:0 >> collisions:0 txqueuelen:500 >> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) >> >> Here's the output of brctl show ... >> bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces >> br0 8000.1ea4d2b9a7eb no tap0 >> > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users > _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
