This is one of those 'note to self' postings... I have a VMWare box that uses bridged networking and has a static DHCP address that I use for a specific client's testing as a db server. Every so often the virtual machine fails to connect to the network properly and ends up with a bogus ip address. I then spend ages trying to work out what's going wrong... This link, may help. It explains about using vmnetcfg.exe to adjust the bridged networking settings on the host machine. The reason that the automatic bridging fails sometimes on my development box is…