Bridge Network Connection with Mac OSX

[PJFIV]

Hi. I'm running Backtrack 5 on Mac OSX 10.7.2 via VMware Fusion 4.1.2. I am trying to bridge my connection from my Mac, to Backtrack. I've tried "dhclient" and everytime I type that (while in bridge mode) it says "No DHCPOOFERS received" and "No working leases. . .". I've tried reconfigurating my IP route via "ifconfig" and "route", but it never returns anything positive. It's always just one error after the other. If you need more information, just ask.

Thanks

[sickness]

Try manually setting up your eth0 interface (or whichever interface you wish) based on the network configuration your DHCP offers. Here is a short example on how to do it and test it out.

ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.111 netmask 255.255.255.0
route add default gw 192.168.1.1 eth0
echo "nameserver 192.168.1.1(or other DNS IP) > /etc/resolv.conf
ping 192.168.1.1

[PJFIV]

Each time I try to set the default gateway, it says "SIOCADDRT: No such process"

[sickness]

The previous is just an example you have to change it to fit your network configuration.

[PJFIV]

I know. I mean when I try do run "route add default gateway <my gw>" it gives me that error.

[sickness]

Make sure you add your network interface at the end of your command.

route add default gw 192.168.1.1 eth0

[PJFIV]

Before I do that, how do I check my DHCP network configuration to assure I'm entering the correct destination and gateway IP? I'm sorry I might be asking extremely easy questions, but I'm brand new to virtual machines. I never had to bridge my connection until now. Thank you so much for your help in advance.

[Stefania]

Hi. I'm running Backtrack 5 on Mac OSX 10.7.2 via VMware Fusion 4.1.2. I am trying to bridge my connection from my Mac, to Backtrack.......

Thanks

IMO if you wanna bridge your MAC connection to Backtrack you have to work it out in Fusion.... furthermore is the easiest way to bridge them.... Fusion creates a Virtual DHCP server and Backtrack will get all the needed Parameters from it as you activate etho....


A part from this scenario, if you want to manually create bridges among different interfaces in BT (Wlan, Ethernet Lan etc...) it should be used an Ubuntu Tool like bridge-utils package:

sudo apt-get install bridge-utils

and then configure the etc/network/interfaces

# First create a loopback if needed and not already set
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# Then the bridge
auto br0
iface br0 inet static
        address 192.168.0.10
        network 192.168.0.0
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        broadcast 192.168.0.255
        gateway 192.168.0.1
# Now the most important data (which interfaces in the bridge: in this case Wireless and Wired)   
        bridge_ports eth0 wlan0

Of course if BT is running as a guest VM, physical interfaces must be handled by VM software (in your case Fusion).

Stefania Castelli