Ubuntu 7.10 Networking with Bridge

[sweep]

The bridge does not work in 1.5.6 and Ubuntu. I've done like described in the newest manual and on ubuntuusers.de.

Nothing of this will work. I think there is a general problem with 1.5.6 and Ubuntu.

[Frank Mehnert]

Maybe a problem slippend into the scripts, either into VBoxAddIF or into /etc/init.d/vboxnet. Please could you post the output of

brctl show

[sweep]

Output:

bridge name     bridge id               STP enabled     interfaces
br0             8000.001a922c2127       no              eth0

[Frank Mehnert]

Thanks. Seems like the interface is not attached to the bridge. Please could you try to attach the interface manually:

brctl addif br0 <tap interface name>

[sweep]

I have restarted and now from scratch:

brctl show

bridge name     bridge id               STP enabled     interfaces
br0             8000.001a922c2127       no              eth0

The script i use to set the bridge up does attach the bridge:

#!/bin/sh
sudo brctl addbr br0
sudo ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0
sudo brctl addif br0 eth0

sudo dhclient br0

sudo chmod 0660 /dev/net/tun
sudo chgrp vboxusers /dev/net/tun

sudo tunctl -t tap0 -u <user name>

[Frank Mehnert]

This is a problem in the driver, I was able to reproduce this now. Most likely we have to hot-update our packages. Please stay tuned.

[Frank Mehnert]

Fixed, please update your package from our websites. Thanks again for the report.