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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