[hobbit] Red Hat vmware server ping problems

[Stef Coene]

On Monday 29 October 2007, Michael A. Price wrote:
> I am running hobbit on a VMWARE box as well. It's a virtual server and I
> am getting the same issue.
>
> When I ping from the CLI its around 2ms , but when hobbit ping's it from
> the application it's around 22ms.
>
> I still have no clue why??? Any help would be great!!!!
There are known problems with communication between the vmware guest and the 
vmware host.  I have to execute
ethtool -K eth0 tx off
before I can communicate between the vmware guest on my laptop and my laptop.  
Maybe this can help.


Stef