Hi after some email exchange with Stephen Hemminger i decide to forward the question to netdev ml.
I'm using vmware 6 and bridged networking with interface eth1 (sky2 driver). The brigde works only when eth1 has the physical connection enabled (another pc plugged in), so i always need to have another pc running to have virtual networking. with tcpdump i can see packets coming from virtual machines, but none sent back. With other drivers (some old 3com cards) i don't have this issue. I wonder if it's possibile to have the sky2 interface always "alive" (as ifconfig reports it up) in order to have the bridge working. I looked for some ethtool options...but nothing... i saw in the code the queue disable, but i would like to switch this somehow runtime... thanks for support Patrizio ps. please CC me i'm not subscribed. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
