DHCP Offer without MAC broadcast but explicit MAC address

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wegmann
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Re: DHCP Offer without MAC broadcast but explicit MAC addres

Post by wegmann »

It think it has nothing to do with WLAN or LAN. It has to do with how the destination MAC address of the DHCP offer from the router looks like, either a broadcast MAC or the MAC of the host, which I think Virtual Box could translate to the MAC of the guest.
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Re: DHCP Offer without MAC broadcast but explicit MAC addres

Post by Martin »

WLAN is a point to point connection and many combination of routers, WLAN card and WLAN driver cannot handle more than one MAC address for a "single" connection.
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Re: DHCP Offer without MAC broadcast but explicit MAC addres

Post by noteirak »

I think the answer of Franck on the BugTracker, being part of the Virtualbox team, is clear : it is accepted, but will not be worked on for now.
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