Bridged networking for virtualbox on -current?

[Doug Barton]

Fredrik Lindberg wrote:
> 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.

Thanks. I'm using an up to date -current, and my outgoing nic is
wlan0. I followed the instructions on the wiki. I first tried the
default nic in OSE then I tried the first Intel nic on the list (which
required downloading drivers of course).


Doug

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