bhyve with wlan0

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> As far as I remember it works just fine other than the standard caveats about bridging over wireless interfaces which involve some odd inconsistencies that could crop up from time to time especially with like DHCP, but a lot of that depends on your network config as a whole. 
> The approach I would consider taking for a wireless host is if the guest doesn't need direct access to the network just do a NAT network or a routed network and route through the wlan interface instead of trying to do bridging with it directly.

One very problematic area for wireless and bhyve is that each guests have a different MAC, wireless does NOT like that, as the AP usually associates with one and only one MAC address.

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> Jason Barbier | E: jason at corrupted.io 
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> On Fri, Nov 27, 2020, at 09:03, tech-lists wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > As subject: can a machine that only uses wlan0 for its connectivity
> > be a bhyve host? Context is 12.2-stable r367858 amd64.
> > 
> > Asking because ISTR some issue with bridging, but that was a while ago.
> > I'm anticipating managing instances with vm-bhyve. Previously have set
> > instances manually on other server hardware.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > -- 
> > J.
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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org