Bridged Ethernet setup

[djeung]

I am trying to configure Parallels such that I can always have a static IP address in Windows (guest system). The problem that I have occurs when switching from wired to wireless connection. I'm not sure which MAC ID to use for my wireless security list (of allowable IDs). I also get IP conflicts on my network.

When I look in my system profiler, I see several MAC IDs in the Active Services section under Network. For instance, Airport will show one MAC ID, Ethernet will show a different one (makes sense), Parallels Host-Guest shows another, and Parallels NAT shows a 4th MAC ID.

My main question is this:

If I want a static IP address (192.168.1.100) for my Windows operating system and I don't care what the IP is for my Mac side, what is the proper way to configure my system. Also, I don't want to have to reconfigure anything each time I change from wired to wireless. Also, since my wireless security requires MAC IDs to be listed for connection, which IDs should I list (Airport, Parallels Host-Guest, Parallels NAT?)

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks

Daniel

 

[Elric]

I understand that it is hard to carefuly describe networking configuration, so my reply may be incomplete.

Usually, you don't need to configure VM Network Adapter to have some special IP-address. If DHCP-server in your network environment doesn't give you an address, you may want to try just leave the MAC-address of adapter default (i.e. it should be _different_ from all other MAC-addresses in your host and should start with 00:1c:42). Parallels should properly handle the situation with MACs for wireless and while sending network traffic, the proper host MAC address is used. Probably, you are receiving IP-conflict due to conflict with your host Mac OS X Airport adapter. You may want to try to assign to the Mac OS X Host Airport-Adapter some fake static IP-address.

If you are switching from Wired to Wireless in the same network environment, all should work properly without any other actions.