[OT] Problem with Centos52 and VMware?

[fred smith]

On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 09:11:12AM -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
> Joe Tseng wrote:
> >I've got a machine I'm using as a VMWare Server host running CentOS52.  
> >Every so often I'd lose contact with it and when I go check it out at the 
> >console I see the message "eth0: promiscuous mode enabled."  The only 
> >thing on there that I've got running on that host is VMWare (w/add'l host 
> >only network) and sshd.  I don't recall this behavior occurring with 
> >Fedora or the old RHL as often if ever.  Has anyone seen this before and 
> >how do I solve this problem?  Thanks!
> >
> 
> Well, this is a Fedora list and not a CentOS or RHEL list, but I'll give 
> it a shot.  Having promiscuous mode enabled isn't an error per se.  I 
> keep my eth0 in that mode all the time for Wireshark, et al. 
> applications.  That shouldn't keep you from getting to the machine.  Is 
> it possible the eth card hung? What is the status of the card after it 
> hangs?

I think vmware puts the host's network into promiscuous mode, at least
when the guest(s) use "bridged" networking, purposely, to support
having multiple entities using the same physical NIC.

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