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Host Crashes at Power on with Bridged Networking
Details
My host machine crashes when a virtual machine configured for
bridged networking is powered on. I have no problems if I use
host-only networking mode.
Solution
The most likely cause is that the network adapter in the host
computer is having problems when the VMware application tries to
set it to promiscuous mode. Try running tcpdump (as root) on the host operating system. If the
host computer crashes, the most likely explanation is that the
network adapter cannot handle promiscuous mode. Try an updated
driver for the network adapter on the host or use a different
network adapter that does support promiscuous mode.
More issues regarding promiscuous mode are discussed in
Knowledge Base article 287. Please see:
