-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Brian,
Most wireless cards do not support bridging anyway. Regards, Michael Brian J. Murrell wrote: > I'm following this brief discussion on bridging and wondering, how does > one handle a situation, say on a laptop where one has both a hardwired > ethernet port (eth0) and a wireless port (wlan0) and one could roam from > one form of networking to another. > > Having to reconfigure my bridge for each location would be a pita to say > the least, especially given that (ethernet) networking generally is > initialized by system boot before the user has access. > > On the other hand, with distros like Ubuntu, wireless networking is not > initialized until after the user logs on and selects a wireless network > to connect to. > > Wireless further complicates things as I simply cannot imagine that a > bridged interface (to which the IP configuration should apply) with a > wlan0 interface included it will work with these > wireless-connection-applets that are being put into most Linux desktops. - -- innotek GmbH (http://www.innotek.de/) Phone +49 7151 60405-0 (Fax: -111) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH0TMw333ZT21/qxwRAkFGAKCPzEB0IZr7y9R8x6mKELA7uK4THgCdGTF2 KH0IJqyOxdUIcWQ3e9uGk7I= =7qWX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
