From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <1df536ac5077b541b77002980016a9f4@plan9.escet.urjc.es> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] VMware Ethernet From: paurea@plan9.escet.urjc.es In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 11:21:24 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: a1287916-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > I use it without DHCP on linux without problems. The only thing I have > found is that it takes a long time to boot. > Well this is not entirely true. When the net is collapsed of traffic, my connections hang, because the eth card isn't able to cope with it, probably because it has to work in promiscuous mode in order to have two ethernet addresses (not sure about this) and gets too many interrupts. Anyway, with normal traffic, I run without problems. Gorka