On Wednesday 24 January 2007 22:22, John Andersen wrote: > On Wednesday 24 January 2007 23:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wednesday 24 January 2007 20:40, Tom Patton wrote: > > > On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 23:36 -0600, M Harris wrote: > > > > I would recommend the Skylink 8 Port switch... relatively > > > > inexpensive, and very fast (does 10/100,. and keeps track of 100 or > > > > 10 separately) for the money for a wired network. > > > > > > I'd suggest buying a gigabit switch to cover future upgrades. My 2-yr > > > old Asus MB interface is gig, and a gig card in the kids computer was > > > very inexpensive...and blazing fast! I have the 5-port Linksys EG005W, > > > and it handles /10 (HP Laserjet printer) /100 (2 laptops) &/1000 (2 > > > pc's) flawlessly. But definately toss the hub! > > > Tom > > > > Thanks for the suggestion, there is no question that the hardware will be > > changed. But I am curious why only my suse operation gets hit. Even the > > vmware virtual network card vmnet1, which is mapped to eth0 manages to > > pull and push its packets cleanly thru eth0! I think i will install a > > linux virtual machine before i switch, just curious if the packets see > > the difference!!! > > So If I understand that correctly you are using bridged networking in > the vmware machine? > > That requires the host os to alias the nic, and put it into promiscuous > mode, which means it has to examine every single packet, rather than > let the hardware filter out what is not destined for your machine. > > Why not use Nat (vmnet8)? It works flawlessly, puts another > layer between your virtual machine and the nasty-net, and is > in my ever so humble opinion (*cough*) the preferred way to > run virtual machines. > > -- > _____________________________________ > John Andersen
perhaps vmnet1 or vmnet8 might be the problem, i had never thought of that. They are at least initialized at bootup, perhaps they really screw up eth0. Ok, i will remove them and try again. thanks:) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
