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Date:      Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:26:07 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>
To:        scottro@nyc.rr.com
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Bounty and timeline on vmware 5.x on FreeBSD 6.x
Message-ID:  <200704191826.l3JIQ7ap061788@saturn.kn-bremen.de>
In-Reply-To: <20070416140454.GA79264@uws1.starlofashions.com>
References:  <200704050712.l357Ck5F000488@pluto.hedeland.org> <4614F65D.3010403@freebsd.org> <ygftzvuhk42.fsf@dominion.borderworlds.dk> <20070405215754.GA28008@saturn.kn-bremen.de> <461A6431.2030709@freebsd.org> <20070410123604.D35599@kozubik.com> <462379F1.3050008@freebsd.org> <20070416063519.L35599@kozubik.com>

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In article <20070416140454.GA79264@uws1.starlofashions.com> scottro@nyc.rr.com
wrote:

>...
>My only problems with VirtualBox were in getting it to use bridged
>networking with a wireless connection. I had no problem when it was
>connected by cabled ethernet, but judging from a bit of googling, I'm
>not the only one who couldn't get it working with wireless. 
>
>Disclaimer number 2--I'm not at all experienced with bridging in Linux,
>it seems to be a bit different than what I do with FreeBSD, and it could
>easily be a PEBCAK problem. 

Afaik the problem is that bridging causes the source ethernet address of
packets you send to change, and not all wireless nics/drivers support
sending other source ethernet addresses than the nic's own.  (This usually
isn't a problem with wired nics...)

 HTH,
	Juergen



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