restating network

[Dev Guy]

Hello Len,

I've noticed VMWare tends to flack out with the bridged network connection too. My routers, I have 2 of them sometime needs to be restarted or the DNS settings refreshed. I suspect something is going on at Bell to cause my network to go dead at time once in a while. Maybe they don't like my routers?

Thanks for the addition information about assignment of a vmnet, I was not aware this was possible =)

What Marc suggested should to do the trick without a reboot hopefully the next time I encounter a network outage on VM.

Kind Regards,
Rajinder Yadav


--- On Fri, 4/17/09, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> From: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org>
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: restating network
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Received: Friday, April 17, 2009, 10:01 AM
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:10:52PM
> -0700, Dev Guy wrote:
> > I am running Linux inside my Windows in VMWare =)
> ...let the flames begin!
> > 
> > OK it's a great way for me to learn Linux, but I have
> noticed at time Linux will have any network connection.
> > 
> > I know enough to use ifconfig to see if my eth0 card
> is up and running. Today I had to add eth0 after bootup
> using ipconfig, but noticed only a ipv6 address and not the
> ipv4 was assigned. Thus no network access for me.
> > 
> > So my question is how to I reinit the network so I can
> get internet working? I am having to reboot to fix this but
> it get's annoying at times.
> 
> VMware on windows has an annoying tendancy to mess up
> bridged ethernet
> if your physical computer has multiple network ports. 
> The result is
> that for no apparent reason you no longer have networking,
> but a reboot
> often fixes it.
> 
> Best you can do is go assign one of the vmnet interfaces
> explicitly
> to the physical port you want bridged into linux, and then
> change the
> virtual network adapter in your vm to that new vmnet
> interface..
> 
> Strangely I have never seen the linux version of vmware
> make this mistake.
> 
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