Bridged networking for virtualbox on -current?

Fredrik Lindberg fli at shapeshifter.se
Sun Nov 22 16:16:05 UTC 2009


Doug Barton wrote:
> Is bridged networking for vbox supposed to work on -current? It says
> on the wiki that it does, but I tried it tonight and couldn't get it
> to work.
> 
> I did see one page that suggested trying one of the Intel virtual
> nicks, which I did, no luck.
> 
> If this is not supposed to work it would be nice to update the wiki, I
> spent quite a bit of time trying to get it to work that I hope was not
> wasted.
> 

The short answer is that it should work.  The long answer is that
it depends, for example it doesn't play nice when trying to
bridge a virtual nic with an if_bridge interface.

A slightly more verbose description of your environment and what
error messages you're seeing would probably help.

Fredrik


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