From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrizio Bassi Subject: (unknown) Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 08:12:37 +0200 Message-ID: <4691D1D5.6030904@gmail.com> Reply-To: patrizio.bassi@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from ik-out-1112.google.com ([66.249.90.177]:26274 "EHLO ik-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750818AbXGIGMl (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 02:12:41 -0400 Received: by ik-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id b32so448202ika for ; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 23:12:40 -0700 (PDT) Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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.