Bounty and timeline on vmware 5.x on FreeBSD 6.x

[Sten Daniel Soersdal]

Juergen Lock wrote:
> In article <20070416140454.GA79264 at uws1.starlofashions.com> scottro at 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...)
>

In AP mode it should work but in station mode it can't because of 802.11 
restrictions. There is something called WDS but it's a poorly documented 
hack and is not, AFAIK, supported in FreeBSD.

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Sten Daniel Soersdal