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Re: OpenBSD on ESX - Networking experiences

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From: Christian Plattner <plattner@...>
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Subject: Re: OpenBSD on ESX - Networking experiences
Date: Tuesday, October 2, 2007 - 10:19 am

> I've personally not had any issues with the vlance driver.  Have two

 > 4.1 guests on ESX3.0.1, been running since around July without issues

 > well,

...

 > considering I haven't had any issues to date.  I will admit they don't

 > get a lot of heavy use.


In my case the pattern produced by executing "find /" in a ssh session

was enough to crash the VM when using the vlance driver and ESX 3.0.1.


Modifying (lowering) the PCN_NTXSEGS value helped.

(see http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2006-12/1655.html)
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