John Hunt's web log » networking http://john-hunt.com Linux, open source, development, coding, beer and other stuff Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:08:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Creating a bridge for VirtualBox / wireless bridging on Ubuntu http://john-hunt.com/2008/03/17/creating-a-bridge-for-virtualbox-wireless-bridging-on-ubuntu/ http://john-hunt.com/2008/03/17/creating-a-bridge-for-virtualbox-wireless-bridging-on-ubuntu/#comments Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:43:00 +0000 admin http://john-hunt.com/linux/2008/03/17/creating-a-bridge-for-virtualbox-wireless-bridging-on-ubuntu/ Following several guides on setting up a bridge on my laptop between the wireless network interface and VirtualBox for direct networking was simply not working for me. Today after lots of head scratching I finally discovered why.

Turns out that the standard bridge utils are no good for most wireless cards, but there is a workaround.

Check out this guide, and read under the wireless section:
Bridged Networking with VirtualBox on Linux Hosts

What you can do is add those various commands to a little script file in /etc/network/if-up.d/ which will set up the ‘bridge’ upon starting networking.

Woohoo!

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