I also completely forgot to mention a limitation of Windows when bridging networks.
When you bridge two network cards, a “MAC Bridge Miniport” network device is created that is used as a single network card. The “MAC Bridge Miniport” receives a new dynamically assigned MAC address each boot. So if you have a Static DHCP setup for your system, you will need to use a static IP address instead since the MAC address will change. Just something to keep in mind. There is no way through the GUI to assign a static MAC address.
