Bridge Network Adapters Always Start Disconnected

I've been working on this for two weeks with no success. Everytime I reboot my server, Windows Server 2008 R2 & VmWare Sever 2.02 any VMs that are set to bridged networking boot with their network adapter set as disconnected. It requires a manual "click" of the checkbox to turn on the network adapter. I have been using VMware server since version 1 and have never had this problem. One unusual thing is the Manager Virtual Networks Auto-Bridging doesn't seem to show any network adapters, although networking continues to work. If I set my VM to NAT or host only my adapter starts connected, as it should.
Things I have tried:
Uninstall VmWare server & Reinstall
Uninstall and create various VM Hosts, all do the same, pre-compiled applicanece and all costum built.
Moved host images to another server (works fine)
Checked to make sure Bridge Protcal is installed on ethernet adapter, even removed and readded.
Uninstalled and reinstalled ethernet adapter (Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCI-E Ethernet Controller(NDIS6.20)
This is a Windows Server 2008 R2 box with lots of ram and plenty of resources only running spiceworks & splunk in a test capacity. Using this machine for testing and pre-deployment but it's virtual machines need to act like they would in production.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Opps typo, I moved the VM images to different hosts, Windows server 2003, 2008 and 2008 R2. My home box runs 2008 R2 and Vmware server nicely together without this issue. Hence why I'm at a loss.
Thanks for your interest.

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$ dmesg
Linux version 2.6.19-ARCH (root@Laptop) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061215 (prerelease
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000ec000 - 00000000000f0000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000f800000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
248MB LOWMEM available.
Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 63488) 0 entries of 256 used
Zone PFN ranges:
DMA 0 -> 4096
Normal 4096 -> 63488
HighMem 63488 -> 63488
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
0: 0 -> 63488
On node 0 totalpages: 63488
DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
Normal zone: 464 pages used for memmap
Normal zone: 58928 pages, LIFO batch:15
HighMem zone: 0 pages used for memmap
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 COMPAQ ) @ 0x000ec010
ACPI: RSDT (v001 COMPAQ HAWA7K31 0x00010503 0x00000000) @ 0x000ec080
ACPI: FADT (v001 COMPAQ HAWA7K31 0x00010503 0x00000000) @ 0x000ec0cc
ACPI: SSDT (v001 COMPAQ HAWA7K3 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000c) @ 0x000ec223
ACPI: DSDT (v001 COMPAQ DSDTTBL 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000c) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0xee08
Allocating PCI resources starting at 10000000 (gap: 0f800000:f07c0000)
Detected 901.637 MHz processor.
Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 62992
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda3 ro earlymodules=piix
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic"
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (011fa000)
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 4096 bytes)
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Memory: 246968k/253952k available (2330k kernel code, 6392k reserved, 735k data
virtual kernel memory layout:
fixmap : 0xfff83000 - 0xfffff000 ( 496 kB)
pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB)
vmalloc : 0xd0000000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 759 MB)
lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xcf800000 ( 248 MB)
.init : 0xc0405000 - 0xc0446000 ( 260 kB)
.data : 0xc0346806 - 0xc03fe64c ( 735 kB)
.text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc0346806 (2330 kB)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 1805.52 BogoMIPS (lpj=3611040)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00000420 00000000 000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
Freeing SMP alternatives: 12k freed
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 501k freed
ACPI: Core revision 20060707
ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initramfs... error, file /DSDT.aml not found.
ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0c28)
CPU0: AMD Duron(tm) Processor stepping 01
SMP motherboard not detected.
Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
Brought up 1 CPUs
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfa154, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
Setting up standard PCI resources
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 10 11 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 15)
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: Assume root bridge [_SB_.PCI0] bus is 0
PCI quirk: region ee00-eeff claimed by vt82c586 ACPI
PCI quirk: region ec00-ec0f claimed by vt82c686 SMB
Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 12 devices
SCSI subsystem initialized
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
NetLabel: Initializing
NetLabel: domain hash size = 128
NetLabel: protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4
NetLabel: unlabeled traffic allowed by default
pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0xee00-0xee7f could not be reserved
pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0xee80-0xeeff has been reserved
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: 80000000-800fffff
PREFETCH window: 88000000-8fffffff
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 98304 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 49152 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 4096)
TCP reno registered
apm: BIOS not found.
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 [email protected]).
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
PCI: Disabling Via external APIC routing
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PBTN]
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
00:03: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:03.0 (0000 -> 0001)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 3
PCI: setting IRQ 3 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:03.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBD,PNP0f0e:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
TCP cubic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
Freeing unused kernel memory: 260k freed
Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:14.1
VP_IDE: chipset revision 16
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686a (rev 22) IDE UDMA66 controller on pci0000:00:14.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1880-0x1887, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1888-0x188f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:DMA
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct20 40, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdd: Compaq CRD-8322B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 78177792 sectors (40027 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63
hda: cache flushes not supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
hdd: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.2[D] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IR
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.2: irq 11, io base 0x00001840
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.3[D] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IR
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.3: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.3: irq 11, io base 0x00001860
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
agpgart: Detected VIA Twister-K/KT133x/KM133 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0x90000000
usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
parport_pc: VIA 686A/8231 detected
parport_pc: probing current configuration
parport_pc: Current parallel port base: 0x378
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, using FIFO [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,E
parport_pc: VIA parallel port: io=0x378, irq=7
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 10
PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.5[C] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IR
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:14.5 to 64
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input1
via686a 0000:00:14.4: base address not set - upgrade BIOS or use force_addr=0xa
vt596_smbus 0000:00:14.4: SMBUS: Error: Host SMBus controller not enabled! - up
via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.4.2 Sept-11-2006 Written by Donald Becker
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:05.0 (0004 -> 0007)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 5
PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:05.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ
eth0: VIA Rhine II at 0x11000, 00:05:5d:e9:5a:17, IRQ 5.
eth0: MII PHY found at address 8, status 0x782d advertising 01e1 Link 0021.
usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
usbhid: probe of 1-1:1.0 failed with error -71
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 3
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
EXT3 FS on hda3, internal journal
Adding 262576k swap on /dev/hda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:262576k
scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access JetFlash TS256MJF110 0.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
usb-storage: device scan complete
eth0: link up, 10Mbps, half-duplex, lpa 0x0021
SCSI device sda: 512000 512-byte hdwr sectors (262 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 512000 512-byte hdwr sectors (262 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
sda: sda1
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
Mobile IPv6
[drm] Initialized drm 1.0.1 20051102
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ
[drm] Initialized savage 2.4.1 20050313 on minor 0
mtrr: base(0x8a000000) is not aligned on a size(0x5000000) boundary
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 1x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 1x mode
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
mtrr: base(0x8a000000) is not aligned on a size(0x5000000) boundary
mtrr: base(0x8a000000) is not aligned on a size(0x5000000) boundary
mtrr: base(0x8a000000) is not aligned on a size(0x5000000) boundary
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 1x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 1x mode
usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 2
usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 3
usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
input: HID 062a:0000 as /class/input/input2
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [HID 062a:0000] on usb-0000:00:14.2-1

Migrate Roles failes when migrating VMs with legacy network adapters (2008R2 - 2012)

I'm working on a upgrade of Hyper-V 2008R2 cluster to Hyper-V 2012 cluster. I am using the "migrate roles" feature of failover clustering to migrate the CSV's and VM's. The wizard ask to which switch the VMs need to be connected on the target cluster.
All VMs with network adapters can be started in the new cluster without any issues. If you look at the XML file of the migrated VMs with normal network adapters, a new XML has been generated in the proper 2012 format. However, all VM's with a legacy
network adapter fail to start. Also there is no migrated XML file in the VM directory. It is impossible to check or adjust the settings of the migrated VMs with legacy network adapters using the failover clustering console.
I have reproduced the issue in my lab several times, and it seems like a bug.
There are several workarounds, but I am looking for a real solution.

Hi,
We recommend that you use the legacy network adapter only to perform a network-based installation or when the guest operating system does not support the network adapter.
If the virtual machine continues to use the legacy network adapter it will not be able to leverage many of the features available in the Hyper-V virtual switch. You may want
to replace the legacy network adapter after the operating system is installed.
The related KB:
Building Your Cloud Infrastructure: Converged Data Center without Dedicated Storage Nodes
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831829.aspx
Configure Networking
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770380.aspx
Hope this helps.
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Problems with SRW224G4 switch and Bridged Network Cards

Hello,
We have recently installed a SRW224G4 switch and have discovered that when we plug our DELL PowerEdge 2900 server into the switch, the switch loses all network connectivity and all of the LED's on the switch start flashing.
The server works perfectly well plugged into another switch, but as soon as we introduce the SRW224G4 into the network, either with the server plugged into that switch or any other, the problem re-occurs.
The only way we found we could eliminate this issue was if we disabled the Bridged Network connection on the two network cards on the server. If we do that, everything is fine, except the network performance of the server has dropped significantly.
The server is plugged into the 1GB ports on the switch, although we tried it on the 100MB ports and received the same problems. The switch reports that the ports are running at full-duplex.
Has anyone noticed this behavior before, and more importantly been able to rectify it.
Thanks in advance for your assistance,
Paul

I had this problem as well with any Linksys 2024 or rackmountable switch.. The trick is, you need to use the network cards management software to "team" or bridged the 2 NIC's otherwise the switch detects a loop and the whole thing locks up. So lame... Windows built in bridge mode stinks dont use it. When you use the Intel management software or Dell or HP's NIc management software you have the option to actually choose "redundant mode" where you can pick a Nic to be the primary, or you can choose Load Balancing where you can essentially double your throughput by joining the 2 nics.
In Windows 2008 Server, you actually do this by going to the Properties on the NIC in Device Manger. the software controls are now built right into the driver. pretty neat. 2003 you can check Device Manager the same way but not sure if it's the same as 2008, you might need to run the actual NIC management app.
Hope this helps
fdigi

2 wired network adapters on 1 computer

I have 2 wired network adapters on 1 computer (windows XP sp3). I used to use on board one, but now I want to use the plugged in one. The problem is I don't know how to use it because windows doesn't automatically change to it. Could you show me how to do
this?
In additional, I want to connect this computer to the other one using the plugged in adapter, and the other computer will connect directly to the internet. Can I do this and how?
Thanks & Best Regards,
Pham Thanh Long

Switching between the two should be fairly straight forward, assuming Windows has both adaptors detected and installed obviously. Down by the clock, right click on the network icon and select Open Network Connections (if that's not visible, go to Start,
Control Panel, make sure you're in classic view mode, then open Network Connections). Confirm that both adaptors are listed.
Right click on the currently used adaptor and go into Properties, then select "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)". If the IP and DNS settings are set to obtain them automatically then that's simple, if they're statically assigned then make a note of the settings
and come out of there. Right click on the adaptor and select Disable. Now right click on the adaptor you want to use and if Enable is listed then click it. Go into the properties of this adaptor and set the IP and DNS address details to the same as they were
on the other adaptor, and close those windows. Now, if you move the network cable from the onboard network connection to the other one you should find that Windows starts to use that one.
In terms of connecting to the other machine, I assume you mean using the onboard adaptor that is now unused? That's possible but a little more tricky. You could connect direct between that adaptor and another computer (though if you're going direct rather
than via a switch/hub then you need to use a crossover cable not a normal network cable). You'll need to setup the network IP address details on this adaptor, and they must be on a different network range to the one you've just configured for your main
network. The two machines can now talk to each other using that adaptor.
If you want to be able to access the internet via that second computer (note, you can't have internet access via the other computer AND the normal network since only one adaptor can be configured with a gateway address) then you'd need to configure
Internet Connection Sharing on the other computer as described here
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306126

Warning - using HomePlug Mains network adapters wi...

Thanks to working with the kind mods from BT I've now figured out the cause of my Infinity "go slow".
Been using Homeplug Turbo 85Mbps network adaptors to connect from the Hub to the PC in my Study (upstairs, when the hub is downstairs).
Despite initial tests showing around 30Mbps download on the laptop (wireless), I typically got 7-15Mpbs download on the PC. The wireless laptop also slowed down to similar speeds, although this improved to around 15-20Mbps after the mods had looked at the line, although the PC stayed slow.
However connecting direct to the hub and disconnecting the Homeplugs gave over 30Mbps again.
With the old Adsl I only got around 2.5Mbps and the Homeplugs were fine.
The Homeplugs are the 85Mbps Turbo model and the monitor app says they are connected at 70Mbps, hence you might reasonably expect them to handle around 30Mbps of traffic.
So be warned, the Homeplugs (or I expect other Mains-borne network devices) don't give the throughput they claim on the box, or on the monitor app !
Reading around on the internet since, it looks like you can only expect around 10-15Mbps in reasonable conditions, hence why the speeds were slow. The variation in speeds seen is probably due to the amount of electrical devices in use in the house/nearby - the performance was better in the morning (daytime, less lights, less TVs etc.) than evenings (lights, TVs etc.)
Hope this might help someone else wondering why their Infinity is slow when using these devices.
Now, got to go, I've got to run some Cat5 through the house to downstairs...

seab20 wrote:
cat5e is fine for gigabit, cat 6 is made for upto 10gbps. Basically its just better shielded, higher quality cable. There is no downside its preparing for future upgrades and it doesnt cost much more than cat5e
[Q] What is the difference between CAT 6 and CAT 5e cable?
[A] Currently there is a great deal of confusion among Ethernet cable buyers concerning whether to purchase Cat5e, or to use Cat6. Most of this confusion comes from a misunderstanding by the buyer that buying Cat6 cable will give them an "all gigabit" network. This is not the case. Unless every single component in the network is gigabit rated, then you will never have a gigabit network, because your network will always run at the speed of your slowest device. Cat5e cable of good quality can run near or at gigabit speeds, it just cannot be "certified" for this use. By comparison, Cat6 is designed especially for gigabit use, and is certified to operate at said speed. It becomes a matter of whether or not you want to pay all that extra money, for little or no noticeable improvement in the performance of you network. In most cases, it makes more sense to go with Cat5e. It is for this reason that most of your new installations in the private sector are going with Cat5e. It is more economical, performs well, and is readily available in many colors. Many IT professionals when asked about why they specified Cat6 for a specific job, often responded stated that they "wanted the best they could get." This is the line of thought behind many purchases of cable. The average consumer often is not aware that there is no real benefit to them to use Cat6, so they let someone talk them in to buying it.
Q. There is smoke coming out of my open reach box... so can I have a new one.
A. Sorry sir, The fault is showing at the exchange so your box should be ok.
BRING BACK UK CALL CENTRES!!!!!

None of the network adapters are bound to the Netmon driver.If you have just installed, you may need to log out and log back in order to obtain the proper rights to capture. Please refer to the product help for more information.

Hi,
To analyze Lync issues I have installed these applications in my windows 7 x64 laptop
1) network monitor 3.4
2)Lync network monitor parser
3)nmdecrypt2.3
4)network monitor parser3.4
Installtion got completed successfully but when I try to start capture I get this error everytime.......
"None of the network adapters are bound to the Netmon driver.If you have just installed, you may need to log out and log back in order to obtain the proper rights to capture. Please refer to the product help for more information"
I read many technet articles and other blogs but that didn't solve this issue. I tried things like
A) Run as administrator
B) nmconfig /install in cmd
So could you please help me how I can fix this issue?
Regards,
Ajit

Seems our driver didn't get installed. What you see when you type "sc query nm3" from a command prompt?
Thanks,
Paul

QEMU/KVM bridge networking howto

Hello all,
I had a dialog here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=145177 but I inadvertently hijacked the OP thread, for that I deeply apologize and decided to start my own thread.
I've been struggling with getting my bridge networking working with QEMU/KVM. I would love to get my KVM Windows 7 install working with bridge network so I can access my internal lan, but so far I am out of luck. When I follow the Wiki's I completely hose my network settings and can't get online with my Arch host.
I've followed the wiki's here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/QE … al_network
should I be using this wiki instead:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KV … Networking
I'm kinda confused on how to approach this since there are separate wikis for QEMU and KVM.
I have a couple of confusing questions, that I hope someone can answer, or lead me in a direction to help me find a solution. Free internet beer for helping.
From a vanilla install of Arch, if I would like to run Windows 7 64-bit in a VM, should I use QEMU or KVM? I did get the windows 7 up and running, not sure how, but it's not on my internet LAN, the VM can only access the internet.
Can someone help me out step by step or pointing me in a direction that can help get a bridge network set up between my host, which will need a static IP address, and my VM, which I would prefer to have another static IP address on my network.
I've tried using virtualbox but the performance was slower than using QEMU/KVM.
BTW, what's the difference between QEMU and KVM? I'm confused by that as well. I would even be willing to write up a "beginners guide" if I can get help getting mine set up.
any help is greatly appreciated.
--nixIT

I do things manually on my system so, for two VM:
ip tuntap add dev tap0 mode tap user djgera
ip tuntap add dev tap1 mode tap user djgera
brctl addbr br0
brctl setfd br0 0.0
brctl addif br0 eth0
brctl addif br0 tap0
brctl addif br0 tap1
ip link set dev br0 up
ip link set dev tap0 up
ip link set dev tap1 up
ip addr del 192.168.0.77/24 dev eth0
ip addr add 192.168.0.77/24 broadcast + dev br0
ip route add default via 192.168.0.1
then each qemu-kvm instance that I lauch add:
-device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0,mac=52:54:00:12:34:00 -netdev type=tap,id=net0,ifname=tap0,script=no,downscript=no
-device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net1,mac=52:54:00:12:34:01 -netdev type=tap,id=net1,ifname=tap1,script=no,downscript=no

[SOLVED] KVM and Bridged Networking

I've got KVM working and a Windows 2008 server installed on a image now, but it's only getting a NAT ip address. I need to get this server onto my main network, on Windows I'd use Virtual Box and Bridged Networking, but I thought I'd give KVM a try out.
I've followed the setup at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KV … Networking
Using Netcfg
Bridged networking is used when you want your VM to be on the same network as your host machine. This will allow it to get a static or DHCP IP address on your network, and then you can access it using that IP address from anywhere on your LAN. The preferred method for setting up bridged networking for KVM is to use the netcfg package. You will also need to install bridge-utils.
Netcfg#Configuring_a_bridge_for_use_with_virtual_machines_.28VMs.29
And this page https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne … _.28VMs.29
I've got a bridge working I believe (all my stuff is DHCP by the way)
Output of ifconfig
br0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 metric 1
inet 192.168.1.52 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
inet6 fe80::21d:7dff:fea9:bb2f prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether 00:1d:7d:a9:bb:2f txqueuelen 0 (Ethernet)
RX packets 2966 bytes 520670 (508.4 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 2351 bytes 1874150 (1.7 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
eth0: flags=4419<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 metric 1
ether 00:1d:7d:a9:bb:2f txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 2977 bytes 570261 (556.8 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 2364 bytes 1875202 (1.7 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
device interrupt 45 base 0xc000
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 16436 metric 1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 0 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 72 bytes 7056 (6.8 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 72 bytes 7056 (6.8 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
I've got "bridge" added to my rc.conf as a MODULE which is loaded. (I saw reference to this somewhere else on the forum that this might be needed)
I'm starting my VM with the following command
qemu-kvm -vnc 192.168.1.52:0 -hda Nekomi -m 2048 -smp 2 -net nic
Yet I still can't get an IP outside of the 10.0.0.0 range on the VM.
The VNC line above is because the HOST has not VGA output at all, completely headless.
I'm trying to get this working and trying to learn at the same time. KVM is new to me, as is bridged networking on linux.
Any ideas? Thanks
Last edited by Naijeru (2012-09-18 16:28:20)

Sorry for the delay, bit a PC rebuild occurred :-(
Anyway, I managed to get this working with steps #1-#7 from the linked section. Thanks for that. I did have a few minor issues in getting a DHCP on the host machine itself, turns out I'd missed a single ) from the daemons section of rc.conf. A human error, but difficult to fix as the machine was rendered off the network and without a VGA card... fun!
I diverge, I have this script to bring up a bridge when the qemu-kvm starts
#!/bin/sh
echo "Executing /etc/qemu-ifup"
echo "Bringing up $1 for bridged mode..."
sudo /sbin/ifconfig $1 0.0.0.0 promisc up
echo "Adding $1 to br0..."
sudo /usr/sbin/brctl addif br0 $1
sleep 2
But when the kvm shutdowns it complains it can't find qemu-ifdown script. So I'm thinking of making one but just want to check it over first.
#!/bin/sh
echo "Executing /etc/qemu-ifdown"
echo "Removing $1 from br0..."
sudo /usr/sbin/brctl delif br0 $1
echo "Taking down $1 from bridged mode..."
sudo /sbin/ifconfig $1 0.0.0.0 promisc down
sleep 2
I've reversed the logic here, is the above the correct way to bring down the guest interface?

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