Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Thad Floryan Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking Subject: Re: How do I configure a bridge adapter to get a DHCP address? Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 16:52:17 -0700 Organization: ThadLABS Lines: 49 Sender: ThadFloryan@c-24-6-16-29.hsd1.ca.comcast.net Message-ID: <540263B1.8070300@thadlabs.com> References: <049d84cd-9c9d-40fe-acf4-dc721b2971b7@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="8c9e5db8d01ced79e92159efa406567d"; logging-data="7597"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19EolalNiwcDRn8jGoLA1yH3W50mxvOaNc=" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228) In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:GSIuXTlTPFh6I67O41Pdkye2Nes= Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.networking:3069 On 8/30/2014 4:18 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Hello, > > akshay rao a écrit : >> Hi, >> I want to configure a bridge adapter to get an IP address from the DHCP server on my LAN. > > What's a bridge adapter, and what does it have to do with Linux ? Simply googling with this term "bridge adapter" finds as the 1st 6 hits: Chapter 6. Virtual networking - VirtualBox https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html Bridged Networking - VMware https://www.vmware.com/support/ws4/doc/network_bridged_ws.html How-to: VirtualBox Networking Part Two - NAT and Bridged http://catlingmindswipe.blogspot.com/2012/06/how-to-virtualbox-networking-part-two.html "Jun 18, 2012 - Last time, we ran through the Network Adapter options available to our ... The Bridged Adapter connects through the host to whatever is your ..." Wireless Ethernet Bridge- Wireless Networking http://compnetworking.about.com/od/hardwarenetworkgear/ss/wirelessadapter_4.htm Cisco Wireless-N Bridge for Phone Adapters - Cisco http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collaboration-endpoints/wireless-n-bridge-phone-adapters/ Network Bridge: Networking and Communications - TechNet http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc781097(v=ws.10).aspx " Network Bridge makes it inexpensive and easy to connect LAN segments. You can use Network Bridge to connect the Ethernet network adapter, the HPNA ..." Even the Microsoft one sounds "linuxy" to me. Since you seem to be unaware, Google is one of many search engines available over the Internet per: Web search engine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_search_engine " A web search engine is a software system that is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. The search results are generally presented in a line ..." Thad