Hi,

Thanks a lot to this advice, Marc. But do I really have to write a start 
script? The Network Connection will be reloaded with an 
/etc/init.d/networking restart.

Greetz

Sebastian

Marc Herbert wrote:
> Sebastian Schnur a écrit :
>   
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> i´d like to setup a virtualbox which is bridged to our existing subnet. 
>> I've seen some howtos and other tutorials on the internet but it's 
>> really complicated. Does VirtualBox support Bridged Networking without 
>> configuring TAP. It would be nice to set it up what it's like in VMware.
>>
>> If not, is this the way I have to go through?: 
>> http://samiux.wordpress.com/2007/07/11/bridge-network-interface-on-virtualbox/
>>     
>
> There is an interesting variation where the bridge "steals" the eth0 name. 
> This requires the "iproute" package (you are likely to have it already).
>
> Thanks to this trick, you can re-use your existing eth0 configuration without 
> changing anything.
>
>
>
> ifdown eth0
> ip link set eth0 name reth0 # "reth0" stands for "real eth0"
>
> brctl addbr eth0
> brctl addif eth0 reth0
>
> ifconfig reth0 up promisc
> ifup eth0 &
>
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