Changeset 41998 in vbox

Timestamp:

Jul 3, 2012 11:39:41 AM (13 years ago)

Author:

vboxsync

svn:sync-xref-src-repo-rev:

78878

Message:

doc/manual: change wording for wireless bridging slightly

File:

• trunk/doc/manual/en_US/user_Networking.xml (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/doc/manual/en_US/user_Networking.xml

@@ -450 +450 @@
 
     <note><para>Bridging to a wireless interface is done differently from
-        bridging to a wired interface, because most wireless adapters do not support
-        promiscuous mode. Since a MAC address of host wireless adapter is different
-        from MAC addresses of virtual machine adapters VirtualBox needs to
-        replace the source MAC address in the Ethernet header of an outgoing
-        packet to make sure the reply will be sent to the host interface.
-        Otherwise the wireless card would drop the reply and VirtualBox would
-        never get it. When VirtualBox sees an incoming packet with the
-        destination IP address that belongs to one of virtual machine adapters
-        it replaces the destination MAC address in the Ethernet header with
-        VM adapter's MAC address and passes the packet to the VM adapter.
-        VirtualBox examines ARP and DHCP packets in order to learn IP addresses
-        of virtual machines.</para></note>
+        bridging to a wired interface, because most wireless adapters do not
+        support promiscuous mode. All traffic has to use the MAC address of the
+        host's wireless adapter, and therefore VirtualBox needs to replace the
+        source MAC address in the Ethernet header of an outgoing packet to make
+        sure the reply will be sent to the host interface. When VirtualBox sees
+        an incoming packet with a destination IP address that belongs to one of
+        the virtual machine adapters it replaces the destination MAC address in
+        the Ethernet header with the VM adapter's MAC address and passes it on.
+        VirtualBox examines ARP and DHCP packets in order to learn the IP
+        addresses of virtual machines.</para></note>
 
     <para>Depending on your host operating system, the following limitations