Wiki says: Bridged networking doesn't work with a wireless interface

[Christof Schulze]

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

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