RE: [Xen-devel] wireless card

["Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I haven't done it under xen. Some (all?) wireless cards have 
> trouble sending packets with a forged MAC address (something 
> to do with association to an access point). I think the way 
> it works is that the MAC address of the wireless client is 
> associated to the AP, and so if you start sending packets 
> with a different MAC address, the AP is going to reject them, 
> and if the AP tries to send packets to the MAC of domU, it 
> won't be able to see it in its list of associated MAC addresses.

[James: well spotted!]

The easiest way to work around this is to use a routed rather than
bridged setup in dom0.

Take a look at the network-router and vif-route scripts.

Ian
 

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