{"id":143,"date":"2008-11-02T23:10:40","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T23:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fir3netwp.gmsrrpobkbd.com\/2008\/11\/02\/solaris-esx-networking-issues\/"},"modified":"2021-07-24T19:24:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T19:24:59","slug":"solaris-esx-networking-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fir3net.com\/Virtualization\/Vmware\/solaris-esx-networking-issues.html","title":{"rendered":"Solaris \/ ESX – Networking Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"
Networking connectivity Issue \/ Dropping packets <\/strong><\/p>\n Ok, so I finally installed Solaris 10 32bit, but then found that the network interface keep dropping packets (??) Installing VMware tools has affected your machine being able to plumb pcn0 <\/strong><\/p>\n Due to this when you reboot your get networking errors and also the system telling you it<\/p>\n cannot plumb pcn0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n In order to resolve this you will need to rename the interface which you can do via the following command (in this example the interface i am changing is pcn0),<\/p>\n mv \/etc\/hostname.pcn0 \/etc\/hostname.vmxnet0 ; perl -pi -e ‘s\/pcn0\/vmxnet0\/g’ \/etc\/hosts <\/span><\/p>\n Once complete run the ifconfig commands to plumb the device (vmxnet0) and also bring the interface up.<\/p>\n More information on configuring Solaris interfaces can be found here.<\/a><\/span> Networking connectivity Issue \/ Dropping packets Ok, so I finally installed Solaris 10 32bit, but then found that the network interface keep dropping packets (??)To fix this I installed VMware tools which installs a new vmxnet driver but as a result this also renames your interface to vmxnet0. Installing VMware tools has affected your machine … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
To fix this I installed VMware tools which installs a new vmxnet driver but as a result this also renames your interface to vmxnet0. <\/p>\n
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