[7674] in testers
Getting rid of unwanted vmnet interfaces
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Dec 27 16:17:53 2007
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:17:08 -0500
Message-Id: <200712272117.lBRLH8AL013147@equal-rites.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: testers@MIT.EDU
If your alpha or beta machine took 9.4.44 or 9.4.45 prior to this
evening, you probably have some new network interfaces in your
"ifconfig -a" output, named vmnet1 and vmnet8.
You don't actually want these. They will cause sendmail to spend 40
seconds spinning its wheels on startup because their addresses don't
resolve. They are there to support NAT and host-only networking in
VMware Player guests which should only be using bridged networking.
To get rid of these, run (as root):
athrun release fixvmnet
Machines in the field will not have this problem because 9.4.46 is
more careful when configuring VMware Player.
