[GTALUG] (question) TP-Link TL-WR802N 300Mbps Wireless-N Nano Router

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 12:15:52PM -0400, James Knott via talk wrote:
> FWIW, I run Windows 10 in a VirtualBox virtual machine on Linux, with my
> ThinkPad.  I run the VM in bridge mode, not NAT.  It gets it's own DHCP
> IPv4 address, along with SLAAC addresses on IPv6.  I even have an
> assigned IPv4 address for it's MAC in my DHCP server.  It all works
> well.  This is with my TP-Link TL-WA901ND access point.  It also works
> with my D-Link DAP-1350 and Asus WL-330gE portable access points.
> 
> So, via WiFi, no matter which access point I use, Linux gets an address
> of 172.16.1.40 and the W10 VM gets 172.16.1.41, as configured in the
> DHCP server.  I get full connectivity on both IPv4 and IPv6 through the
> single WiFi connection.

That's interesting.

Does virtualbox use the same MAC as the host system, or it's own MAC?
That would make a difference I would think.

Which wifi adapter is in that machine?

Certainly doing it in linux with brctl and kvm does not work.

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Len Sorensen