I believe it is set to "auto"... and I have been using wifi today 
(although I often plug in when at my desk). DNS problems were indeed 
among the symptoms this morning. Absent those issues, I can live with 
NAT (if it functions) ... as I plug in often enough to take care of M$ 
auth issues.

On 10/1/2015 3:45 PM, J. Greg Mackinnon wrote:
> Bridged does not work very well with Wi-Fi, if I recall correctly. 
> Have you configured bridging to use your Ethernet connection, or is it 
> set to "auto"?
>
> NAT with work regardless of the host machine NIC that is used behind 
> the scenes, but can cause some problems with name resolution, amongst 
> other potential problems.
>
> -J. Greg Mackinnon | ETS Systems Architecture and Administration | x68251
>
> On 10/1/2015 3:42 PM, Ernie Buford wrote:
>> It can be trouble diagnosing network problems on a day when the 
>> network itself is having problems, so I bring my current network 
>> issue here....
>>
>> A Windows 8.1 VM running in Fusion on a Macbook Pro could only get 
>> "limited" (i.e., worthless) network connection this morning. I 
>> noticed that the adapter for this VM was set to NAT. Recalling that 
>> Bridged was the preferred setting, I changed it to Bridged, which 
>> helped initially. That was at home this morning. Now, back on campus, 
>> the connection is not working in Bridged mode, but *does* work if I 
>> change it to NAT.
>>
>> Does this make sense? Is there some other config I should be adjusted 
>> to make this work in Bridged mode?
>>
>> Ernie