Hello forum,
I am facing trouble with my Windows 8.1 Host workstation and Hyper-V with FreeBSD guest that acts as gateway and PXE Server on the physical ethernet.
I will try to explain the situation as much clean as possible. The Windows 8.1 Host workstation is connected to the internet through the Wireless card and internet to the guest is shared through Hyper-V Internal Only virtual interface and NAT from the Wireless card to the Hyper-V Internal Only interface.
The physical ethernet card at the other hand is shared to the guest through Hyper-V Bridge virtual interface, while on the FreeBSD guest side NAT is configured with IPFW and NATD from the virtual ethernet adapted that gets NAT from the Windows 8.1 Host workstation to the second virtual ethernet adaprter that is the one bridged with the Host physical ethernet. The DHCP Server on the FreeBSD guest is set on it's own subnet.
The issue is that when a client is connected to the physical ethernet it correctly gets the IP address from the FreeBSD gateway and is able to surf the web, but randomly and quite often both the client connected to the ethernet guest gateway gets disconnected along with the Windows 8.1 Host Workstation as the Host instead of remaining connected to the Wirleless gets connected to Hyper-V Bridge virtual interface.
A friend of mine told me to create a loopback interface and bind all the Hyper-V virtual adapters to the loopback interface and than NAT, however though beside installing the loopback interface I am not sure about how to proceed or if there's a better / more convenient way to do it.
Thanks