From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756560AbXGANzf (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Jul 2007 09:55:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753843AbXGANz1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Jul 2007 09:55:27 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.173]:34841 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752077AbXGANz0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Jul 2007 09:55:26 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:organization:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Pks2VfQuYNfl0BtxR72vViiCTm4RP2NvTaSwtobgTemRbAAaubffCYGwMCUXIj/TxkyzagkPKR9bhtZ4+qlEf4ep3bIcZ5hcls37yD6mfUDXVkYy90G2HNkTAJGFnfKtnxg3augnxPlAC9b/zT3EMYz/vl8aWNLQGG6/D4WAPrY= Message-ID: <4687B247.8000306@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 15:55:19 +0200 From: Patrizio Bassi Reply-To: patrizio.bassi@gmail.com Organization: patrizio.bassi@gmail.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070619) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Kernel, " Subject: sky2: keep the interface up and working X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi I'm using vmware and bridged networking with interface eth1. The brigde works only when eth1 has the physical connection enabled, so i always need to have another pc running. with tcpdump i can see packets coming from virtual machines, but none sent back. I wonder if it's possibile to have the interface always "alive" (as ifconfig reports it up) in order to have the bridge working. I looked for some ethtool options...but nothing... thanks for support Patrizio