Comment 11 for bug 105697

Well, this just solved my problem.

Please note that I am now using the vmware-server package from Ubuntu. Before, I DID NOT HAVE THIS PROBLEM. I have NOT gone back however and tested to see if the latest version will fix the problem.

The Ubuntu vmware-server package is behind now (1.0.2 vs 1.0.3). I was excited because of the package's existence, but now it's looking like using it is a bad idea because it is behind the program version.

Anyway I used the command "sudo ethtool -K eth0 sg off rx off tx off tso off" and what do you know, it worked. I can now open connections between the host and linux guests. BTW my Windows 2000 guests have had no problem all along. And the Linux guests don't work whether you have vmware tools installed or not.

Maybe I should be creating a virtual interface, bridging to THAT, and then bridging THAT to my ethernet, to avoid problems like this?

Is there someplace I can put the ethtool commandline to make it permanent? I mean, I can think of several places to do it, but which one is best?