Networking issue in VMware

Thursday, March 14, 2019

After upgrading my VMware Linux bootcamp partition, I ran again into the same old problem I have with every upgrade. See the 2017 edition and the 2018 edition.

I thought this was the same thing, but it's not. The configuration file is still there. I ended up reinstalling VMware tools completely, but it did not really help. This time, it appears to be somewhat random, with teh e1000 going up and down at unpredictable intervals:

  [  713.513746] e1000e: ens160 NIC Link is Down
  [  718.453242] e1000e: ens160 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: None
  [ 8226.214766] e1000e: ens160 NIC Link is Down
  [ 8231.270000] e1000e: ens160 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: