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.

> Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 09:11:12 -0400
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [email protected]
> 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?

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