I loved the last comment where he inferred no one knew the difference between a MAC address and a Mac computer, meanwhile he's fundamentally misunderstanding how networking works and making bizarre statements about wifi that literally everyone disagreed with him on. I bet he's still insisting he was right even though it's all fixed now because he doesn't get how VM network bridging works.
replyAlso classic, someone finally jumping in with a full and insightful explanation. What a turnaround!
replySo, are they gonna add official support for this in the wifi standard someday? It sounds like the way that this works is a non-standard workaround
replyYou might be looking for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_distribution_system
replyThis is a standard way to form bridges in WiFi networks and does not require any ARP proxying. In practise this requires certain OS/driver/firmware/chipset combinations to work though.
> the bug was that it ever worked
replyThis is actually what’s interesting
replyremember how there used to be people whose lifestyle was answering Stack Overflow questions? 3 years from now we're going to be looking at charts showing engagement from GitHub Lifestyle people going straight down too.
replyLike that probably still open huge github issue with hundreds of comments, the one about how docker will blow your firewall wide open.
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