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Re:NAT Is the Enemy of Low Power Devices by nolist_policy on Friday February 14, 2025 @04:40PM (#43053367)
You actually need to use special 4addr/WDS frames with 4 addresses[1]. However no one accepts these by default so it's unusable for a Laptop that you want to connect to random wlan networks.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/1258465585.3682.7.camel@johan...

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Re:NAT Is the Enemy of Low Power Devices by lxgr on Friday February 14, 2025 @08:20PM (#43054907)
Hm, maybe I'm mixing up something here, but all I can say is that it works like this on my machine: I have a VM running in bridged mode, I'm connected to my home router using Wi-Fi, and I can see the virtual MAC address of the VM on the router management interface.

Possibly this is just at the DHCP level, though, and what the router sees just comes from my host MAC address? A quick packet trace suggests that.

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