VMWare bridged networking and wireless
Claude Jones
cjones at levitjames.com
Mon Sep 15 14:13:14 UTC 2008
On Mon September 15 2008 10:07:59 am John Haxby wrote:
> Bridging and wireless don't mix. There might be some chipsets that do
> wireless bridging but I've never seen one. As I understand it the
> problem is that a wireless NIC can't be put into promiscuous mode and so
> can't be used as a bridge. This is a problem that has bitten various
> Xen users at various times -- you might find more on their mailing lists.
aha...thanks for that -- I can test this simply by connecting the wired nic
and trying to bridge through the wired NIC, which I'd planned to do anyhow
--
Claude Jones
Leesburg, VA
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