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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