Re: Why wireless interface cannot be attached to a Linux host bridge?

Pol Van Aubel
Tue, 07 Jul 2020 18:46:29 -0000

Quoting brent s. (2020-07-07 20:09:13)
> Is anyone aware/at liberty to say how VirtualBox circumvents this
> limitation? I presume it's via some sort of software switch trickery,
> but they seem to be able to do a bridged(-like) mode via a Wi-Fi interface.

See the second "Note" at
<https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html#network_bridged>.
Basically, they do MAC address translation.

-- Pol