windows 7 - Bridged adapter in Virtual Box - cannot obtain IP

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2014-04
  • Garath

    I have virtual box with RHEL installed. My virtual box is running on windows 7 64 -bit. I configured bridged connection, but when I am restarting network interfaces, I receive following error:

    Determining IP information for eth1... failed

    On Windows XP it works without problems. I disabled Windows Firewall and installed latest Virtual Box, still without success.

    NAT is working without any problems. What did I missed?

    UPDATE

    Ouput of ifconfig -a is:

    eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 08:00:27:B6:FC:69
          inet addr:10.0.2.15  Bcast:10.0.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:feb6:fc69/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:430 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:346 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:36520 (35.6 KiB)  TX bytes:31455 (30.7 KiB)

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 08:00:27:C3:84:4A
          inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:fec3:844a/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1464 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:17 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:135419 (132.2 KiB)  TX bytes:4230 (4.1 KiB)

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:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

    Output of route -n

    Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
10.0.2.0        0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     1002   0        0 eth0
0.0.0.0         10.0.2.2        0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0

    Output of dhclient -v eth1 is:

    Listening on LPF/eth1/08:00:27:c3:84:4a
Sending on   LPF/eth1/08:00:27:c3:84:4a
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6 (xid=0x6afb6c4c)
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9 (xid=0x6afb6c4c)
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15 (xid=0x6afb6c4c)
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 18 (xid=0x6afb6c4c)
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13 (xid=0x6afb6c4c)
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.

    Moreover the same machine with the same configuration works well on Windows XP. The problem is only on Windows 7.

    • Answers
  • Garath

    The problem was not with my machine, but my company DHCP server, which block more than one mac on port. It took me two days to find out that problem was "outside" my machine


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  • Krazy_Kaos

    I'm trying to get my FEDORA12 to have an STATIC IP - inside VirtualBox - inside Ubuntu

    Let me rephrase that. I have an Ubuntu 9.04 system with VirtualBox and a FEDORA12 VM. I would like to use a static IP on the Fedora VM (amahi needs it), but I'm getting stuck... I'm using NAT (if that's any help)

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    Screenshots:

    UBUNTU 9.04 (host that has the VM)

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    FEDORA

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    INFO:

    GUEST WITH STATIC:

    IFCONFIG:

    eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 08:00:27:35:CC:DE  
          inet addr:192.168.1.55  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:fe35:ccde/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2764 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:574 (574.0 b)  TX bytes:127121 (124.1 KiB)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xc020 

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:1856 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1856 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:181587 (177.3 KiB)  TX bytes:181587 (177.3 KiB)

    NETSTAT -NR:

    Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
192.168.2.1     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH        0 0          0 eth0
192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 eth0
0.0.0.0         192.168.2.1     0.0.0.0         UG        0 0

    GUEST WITH DHCP:

    IFCONFIG:

    eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 08:00:27:35:CC:DE  
          inet addr:10.0.2.15  Bcast:10.0.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:fe35:ccde/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:105 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2966 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:49787 (48.6 KiB)  TX bytes:149969 (146.4 KiB)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xc020 

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:1903 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1903 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:185931 (181.5 KiB)  TX bytes:185931 (181.5 KiB)

    NETSTAT -NR:

    Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
10.0.2.0        0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 eth0
0.0.0.0         10.0.2.2        0.0.0.0         UG        0 0          0

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  • heavyd

    You need your IP address to be on the same subnet as the virtual NAT router. As you can see from when you use DHCP on the guest the subnet is 10.0.2.0/255.255.255.0, so, when you are setting a static IP address it needs to be in the 10.0.2.x range. Try setting it to something like 10.0.2.150. If possible, look in the VirtualBox settings to find the range of IPs the DHCP server will assign so you don't use one of those. Once your on the same subnet, it should work just fine. Just to summarize, here are your settings:

    IP: 10.0.2.150
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 10.0.2.2