eth0 <=> wlo1 "bridge?"

[PattiMichelle]

@tsu2

Assuming your Matlab is being installed into a Guest, you should be configuring eth0(or its equivalent) as your network connection within the Guest no matter anything else. You should never need to change the network interface within the Guest, and rarely how that interface is configured. In other words and repeating myself ad nauseum, it doesn’t matter what the “real world” physical networking is, <within> the Guest it will <always> be the wired connection, whether it’s eth0 or whatever.

On the outside, you have a variety of different ways to configure your bridge and the name of the bridge device isn’t seen by the Guest, so it doesn’t matter what the name is.

If you are running KVM virtualization, then simply create a virtual network within vm manager, or just use the existing “virbr0” device. By default, unless something has changed it should automatically connect to any physical network the HostOS can see, whether it’s wired or wireless. Run “edit” on the virtual network to see see details, like whether it’s configured to bridge, Host Only or NAT (most likely). If you want, just use this default bridge device in your early investigation because at any time you can switch to another bridge device which might be configured a different way with no configuration within the Guest (only outside).

If you continue to have problems, post some details about the virtualization technology used, list existing bridges and properties, eg

brctl show

brctl show <bridge name>

TSU

Oh, I didn’t think of installing it in a guest! That might be a good idea, because the guest is portable between different installs of Opensuse or even windows, and I can do whatever I want with the interfaces, including spoofing a MAC. The only problem I’ve found with VM’s is memory (and sometimes speed) - 8 GB is the usual maximum these days, and a guest hits that fairly significantly. Vbox is probably the simplest and most portable across hosts, KVM requires a linux host. Wine is nice because you don’t have to boot it every time you want to use it. I wonder what the future of Wine is?