<html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } </style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'>Nothing unusual appears IIRC when I run ifconfig. I am unable to ping anything on the network and I also ran "network restart" but to no avail. So far only a full restart would make the problem go away. I just realized I haven't looked at my logs; I'll check that out later. <hr id="stopSpelling">> Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 09:11:12 -0400 > From: mhaney@ercbroadband.org > To: fedora-list@redhat.com > Subject: Re: [OT] Problem with Centos52 and VMware? > > 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? <hr />Get more from your digital life. <a href='http://www.windowslive.com/default.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Home2_082008' target='_new'>Find out how.</a></body> </html>