I have tried everything, and I can't get the bridge function to work on my Virtual Machine.
My setup is as follows:
- VMware Virtual Machine on ESX Server 2.5
- 3 NIC’s
o Internet (DHCP assigned address)
o Internal (static address)
o DMZ
- 256MB RAM
- 8GB hard drive space
- Single 1GHz processor
Note: all interfaces connected to different ESX Virtual Switches
First I:
- Set up the external interface (Internet) … it was able to get a DHCP address
- Set up a masquerade NAT
- Set up rules that allowed all access to the Internet from the internal network
All of this worked perfectly.
Then I created a bridge using the Internet Interface and the third interface that had not yet been configured. Here is what I found:
- Initially, the br0 interface kept its DHCP address and configuration
o The NAT and rules I had set up stopped working
o I was not able to ping the gateway from the firewall
- After rebooting, I was not able to get a DHCP address
- Using the IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway previously assigned through DHCP, I statically configured the IP settings on the br0 interface
o I was not able to ping the gateway from the firewall
o I received a “Destination unreachable” error in the ping (I verified that this could statically assign the IP, mask, and gateway on another host, and it worked perfectly fine ... I double checked the subnet mask)
- I tried reinstalling Astaro and skipped the mask and the rule configurations
o The same behavior as above occurred with the DHCP address after the interfaces were joined to the bridge
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Is it possible that there is a glitch with the bridge function on a VM?
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