Bridged adapter in Virtual Box

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.

Piotr Stapp

Posted 2013-12-16T15:33:38.927

Reputation: 181

Did you perhaps perform the installation on NAT? I know I've done that a few times and then had to reconfigure the network because the bridged adapter settings are different. I don't know 100% sure about Redhat but many distributions, especially those intended for servers, will set you up with a static IP to begin with. – Dylan – 2013-12-16T16:23:15.520

How many adapters do you have? Why do you say: when I restart networking...? Do you mean to say it works when you start up the VM? – MariusMatutiae – 2013-12-16T17:49:49.883

@Dylan with NAT everything is ok. – Piotr Stapp – 2013-12-17T09:20:17.820

@MariusMatutiae No it doesn't. I tried to restart network service to see what is wrong. – Piotr Stapp – 2013-12-17T09:20:48.397

Can you pls post the output of ifconfig -a , and of route -n, in the guest? – MariusMatutiae – 2013-12-17T11:21:03.363

@MariusMatutiae added all outputs. – Piotr Stapp – 2013-12-17T12:56:25.237

What is your antivirus / security suite ? I used to have an antivirus which was blocking VM network on the (legitimate) groud that a machine shouldn't emit packets pretending to come from another machine (i.e. the virtual one in this case). I had to tweak the configuration to allow networking to pass. – Offirmo – 2013-12-17T15:25:59.320

I apologize, I think I may have been unclear. I was not asking whether the NAT was okay, I know that - I was asking whether you perhaps had a static configuration specific to the NAT. I have this happen almost every time I set up a new VM, as I usually forget to start it in bridged mode and I'm usually setting up servers with static IPs. If the VM acquires it's IP address through DHCP, this won't be a problem, but if it's static (even partially) you'll need to reconfigure it. Can you post the output of, if I recall correctly, cat /etc/sysconfig/network (which I hope is correct for Redhat)? – Dylan – 2013-12-17T15:53:40.920

Actually, it may be a file specific to the interface - /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth# (e.g. eth0) – Dylan – 2013-12-17T16:00:39.987

@Offirmo how did you check what is blocking incoming packets? – Piotr Stapp – 2013-12-17T16:08:03.937

@Dylan I have configuration for DHCP. Moreover as I wrote dhclient -v eth1 doesn't connect at all – Piotr Stapp – 2013-12-17T16:09:25.677

@Garath If you suspect a security software, you can 1) go into the software reports/logs to check if it is blocking packets 2) disable it entirely and have a try (do it in a safe network behind a firewall) – Offirmo – 2013-12-17T16:22:47.360

@Offirmo nothing found. Can I use Wireshark to debug this? – Piotr Stapp – 2013-12-17T16:49:40.927

@Garath of course, outgoing packets (ping www.google.com is my favorite) should show up in Wireshark. However be sure to listen on the proper interface. – Offirmo – 2013-12-18T09:23:30.763

I found out that it is problem with my company DHCP server. – Piotr Stapp – 2013-12-18T09:24:38.423

Bridged adapter in Virtual Box - cannot obtain IP

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