Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:27:03 +0100 From: Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wiki says: Bridged networking doesn't work with a wireless interface Message-ID: <4B30C927.8040409@eskk.nu> In-Reply-To: <200912221422.18091.christof.schulze@gmx.com> References: <4B2FF9A6.3070204@eskk.nu> <200912221422.18091.christof.schulze@gmx.com>
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On 2009-12-22 14:22, Christof Schulze wrote: > Am Montag 21 Dezember 2009 23:41:42 schrieb Leslie Jensen: >> http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox >> >> says >> >> Bridged networking doesn't work with a wireless interface >> >> >> I'm in the process of testing the iwn driver on 8.0-RELEASE. >> >> On this machine Bridged networking works with a wireless interface. >> >> So I was just wondering if I was lucky or the wiki needs an update? >> >> /Leslie > Hello, > > in general the wiki is correct, but there might be some exceptions like in > your case. The Problem with bridging ethernet and wlan is that the layer 2 > protocol is different which some drivers cannot handle correctly. > > Christof > Hi Christof I've seen that it's quite intermittent and unreliable, and I dropped the testing with wlan. /Leslie
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