From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 8 19:37:41 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DE19106568D for ; Fri, 8 Jan 2010 19:37:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de) Received: from smtp.kn-bremen.de (gelbbaer.kn-bremen.de [78.46.108.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C1498FC08 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 2010 19:37:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kn-bremen.de (Postfix, from userid 10) id 131F31E00763; Fri, 8 Jan 2010 20:17:59 +0100 (CET) Received: from triton8.kn-bremen.de (noident@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by triton8.kn-bremen.de (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o08JFw9A034603; Fri, 8 Jan 2010 20:15:58 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nox@triton8.kn-bremen.de) Received: (from nox@localhost) by triton8.kn-bremen.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o08JFwnX034602; Fri, 8 Jan 2010 20:15:58 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nox) Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 20:15:58 +0100 (CET) From: Juergen Lock Message-Id: <201001081915.o08JFwnX034602@triton8.kn-bremen.de> To: patfbsd@davenulle.org X-Newsgroups: gmane.os.freebsd.questions In-Reply-To: <20100102005808.12d46e63@baby-jane.lamaiziere.net> References: <20100102002243.54ba6716@baby-jane.lamaiziere.net> <6201873e1001011536p51c47d0fh93d700c6d96fb126@mail.gmail.com> Organization: home Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Virtualbox and bridged interface. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:37:41 -0000 In article <20100102005808.12d46e63@baby-jane.lamaiziere.net> you write: >Le Fri, 1 Jan 2010 17:36:30 -0600, >Adam Vande More a =E9crit : > >> > Is there someone able to make VirtualBox working with a bridged >> > interface? >> > >> > I've got : >> > My gateway/access point on 192.168.1.1/24 >> > The host on 192.168.1.20/24 via wifi (wlan0) >> > The guest on 192.168.1.25/24 bridged with wlan0 >... > >> Bridged networking doesn't work on wireless interfaces. > >Ah ok :( > >I would be happy to know why, briefly. Is it a limitation in the >wireless connection or a limitation in the operating system (FreeBSD)? > The problem is caused by the fact that hosts on wifi can usually only use a single mac address, and while the vbox code does contain a `shared mac' feature thats supposed to work around this problem this feature hasn't been ported for FreeBSD hosts yet. >I've used some bridged guests on Mac OS X and vmware fusion but I don't >remember if I used the ethernet or the wireless interface. > >To J.D.Bronson: no mac authentication here, thanks for the "shot in the >dark" anyway. > >So I will try to setup a vpn between the host and the guest. There is another workaround tho that you can try involving a tap interface, routing, proxy arp, and a patch to vbox to enable direct tap networking, http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/vbox/patch-tapdirect.txt more details including a config example in this post: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2010-January/007260.html (I patched vbox 3.1.2 thats not commtted to ports yet, it's possible the patch doesn't apply to the older version in ports. The latest vbox 3.1.2 Call for testing is here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2010-January/007241.html The patch can go in that port's files/ dir.) HTH, Juergen