VirtualBox

Opened 13 years ago

Closed 9 years ago

#9012 closed defect (invalid)

Bridge device assignments unreliable if two identical NICs are installed on a windows host.

Reported by: yuriks Owned by:
Component: network Version: VirtualBox 4.0.8
Keywords: Network Bridge Cc:
Guest type: Linux Host type: Windows

Description (last modified by Klaus Espenlaub)

I have two identical (same chipset and same driver) ethernet NICs installed in a Windows 7 SP1 host. They appear on the device manager as two devices with identical names. I'd like to bridge each to a different virtual interface in a Linux guest. Unfortunately, the VirtualBox machine configuration files identify interfaces in bridging configurations only by their name, leading to an ambiguity in this case (since both devices are identical) and resulting in the two devices being randomly re-assigned to a different virtual guest interface every time.

A more precise way of specifying host network devices needs to be used, perhaps mac address or the windows UUID.

Attachments (2)

arch_server-2011-06-02-03-06-52.log (41.7 KB ) - added by yuriks 13 years ago.
VBox log
arch_server.vbox (6.8 KB ) - added by yuriks 13 years ago.
VM description file

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Change History (4)

by yuriks, 13 years ago

VBox log

by yuriks, 13 years ago

Attachment: arch_server.vbox added

VM description file

comment:1 by Klaus Espenlaub, 9 years ago

Description: modified (diff)

Never seen such problems with two devices having exactly the same name. For all my Windows installs they were made unique by appending a number, and IIRC renaming also checked for clashes with other network devices.

comment:2 by Valery Ushakov, 9 years ago

Resolution: invalid
Status: newclosed
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