From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 19 18:56:03 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BDCC16A404 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:56:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nox@saturn.kn-bremen.de) Received: from gwyn.kn-bremen.de (gwyn.kn-bremen.de [212.63.36.242]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 379C613C45B for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:56:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nox@saturn.kn-bremen.de) Received: by gwyn.kn-bremen.de (Postfix, from userid 10) id 3D01E1BA8CA; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:56:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: from saturn.kn-bremen.de (nox@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by saturn.kn-bremen.de (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l3JIQ8Wd061789; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:26:08 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from nox@saturn.kn-bremen.de) Received: (from nox@localhost) by saturn.kn-bremen.de (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id l3JIQ7ap061788; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:26:07 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from nox) Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:26:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Juergen Lock Message-Id: <200704191826.l3JIQ7ap061788@saturn.kn-bremen.de> To: scottro@nyc.rr.com X-Newsgroups: local.list.freebsd.emulation In-Reply-To: <20070416140454.GA79264@uws1.starlofashions.com> References: <200704050712.l357Ck5F000488@pluto.hedeland.org> <4614F65D.3010403@freebsd.org> <20070405215754.GA28008@saturn.kn-bremen.de> <461A6431.2030709@freebsd.org> <20070410123604.D35599@kozubik.com> <462379F1.3050008@freebsd.org> <20070416063519.L35599@kozubik.com> Organization: home Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bounty and timeline on vmware 5.x on FreeBSD 6.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:56:03 -0000 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