VMware Communities: Message List - Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

st0mp — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:17:14 GMT

I have had this problem with Perallels and now Fusion. My MBP internet works fine all the time however the VM with XP Pro has problemes connecting and staying connected to the internet at my home and place of buiseness. Both of which have ATT dsl and 2 wire modems. I have even tried it connected directly to the modem. I have tried to resolve tihs through ATT with no luck. I have tested this on other gateways and ISP's and it works flawlessly I believe it has to do with the 2 wire modem. Please let me know of any fix or workaround. Please contact me if more info would help. This is quit frustrating and disruptive to my buisiness.

Your product dose seem to far out preform Parallels with this one exception!

Thanks,

st0mp

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

Halenbeck — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:45:37 GMT

Hi Ben,

thx for the fix. It seems to work perfect for me. I
worked for at least 15Minutes withs everal "Bridged" VMs and had no
problems. Without the fix I couls not work for longer than about 2 or 3
Minutes. So I am optimistic that the fixxsuccessfully addressed the
problem and I am looking forward to have Fusion 1.2 avaiolable real
soon

My environment: 10.4.11, Alu-iMac, Airport Extreme Base Station and build-in network card, Fusion 1.1 and IPÜV6 disabled.

Thx again!

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

magi — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 06:25:33 GMT

Switching off IPV6 on Tiger doesn't stop tcpdump from killing my wireless networking, so I can't see how it would stop Fusion 1.1 from killing my wireless networking.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

bgertzfield — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 04:34:46 GMT

Hi folks,

We have a potential fix for this issue. Please download the fix from this thread:

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/115905

and let us know if it solves the issue for you.

Thanks for your patience!

Ben

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

raygump — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:50:43 GMT

I can also now confirm that switching off 'IPv6' on Leopard makes no difference. Fusion still kills my MAC windows networking.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

rcardona2k — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:08:07 GMT

Thanks for the update! Disabling IPv6 has made my OS X 10.4.11 SR MacBook Pro wireless bridge reliable. Sorry it did not do the same for you.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

Halenbeck — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:05:50 GMT

Nope, sorry. Disabling IP V6 is not a reliable workaround. I have never ever IPV6 enabled and nevertheless, I experience reproducable bridged networking break downs with Fusion 1.1 and MAC OSX 10.4.11.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

raygump — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:59:41 GMT

Answers and comments....

1/ Macbook Pro 17in

2/ Leopard

3/ Tried using N, but G and B are more reliable.

4/ Airport Extreme (N) and/or Airport Express.

5/ Yes, have applied the latest patch, but this may have made things worse - not conclusive. Note that Apple is (or seems to be having) lots of issues with Airport Express, and there is much written about it in the discussions on their support page.

6/ B does seem to be more reliable, but best of all is wired networking.

Somehow the VM seems to cause the Windows networking (smb) stuff on the mac to crash - my PC's on the network dissapear, but I can still see the Mac machines.

Apple issues with Airport Extreme seem to be compounded with networking issues in Leopard, and although I have spent considerable time trying to find the problem, my conclusions are:

1/ VMWare Fusion does cause a problem with the Mac networking as discussed above in (6).

2/ Apple Airport Extreme has problems and their firmware updates have not yet sorted this out. In general I have found the first version of the firmware (7.0) for the original Airport Extreme to be the most reliable. I had purchased one of the later Airport Extremes with the 1Gbit WAN phy, but this is even worse so I returned it.

3/ Leopard somehow has more fragile networking than 10.4.

Hope this helps, and I look forward to some fixes

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

rcardona2k — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 06:54:43 GMT

Please disregard my request above asking if this issue is limited to Santa Rosa Core2Duo machines. I found a workaround for my wireless bridge instability in OS X 10.4.11 by turning off IPv6 on the Airport connection. I passed the details in this related thread: Re: Hosts networking stops all of a sudden with Bridged VMs and Airport Express

Thanks

edit: I'm not seeing the issue in the link above with Leopard (OS X 10.5.1), with IPv6 set to Automatic, but the workaround does work for OS X 10.4.11.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

Halenbeck — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 17:06:59 GMT

Yep, I have just started with Fusion 1.1 and ran into the problem discussed in this thread. Reviewing all, I have the impression that VMWare is close to a solution. But in order to complete it from my end here is my setup:

1) What Mac do you have?

Brand new 24" Alu iMac

2) What version of Mac OS X are you running?

10.4.11

3) Are you running B, G, N or a combination of wireless networking technologies?

Pure "n"

4) What base station are you connected to?

AirPort Extrem with lates software on it (7.2.1) . But reading teh discussions, I do not have th eimpression that this is a Router-Issue.

5) Have you applied the latest Airport Update from 7/30 and does it help?

Yep, Nope.

6) If you are using N networking, if you drop back to G or B networking, does the problem occur?

Pure "N" and I have not made tests with "B" and "G".

What I still want to mention -

networking for the entire Host system breaks
I can recover by "disable" and "enable" Airport
the break down is very reliable inbetween 20Seconds up to 5Minutes working with the guest
the problem occurs with Linux as well as Windows as a guest
no problems using NAT (or Parallels
the only reason why I keep on using VMWare is the fact that you guys showed that youare working on the problem. I really appreciate that!

As I can pretty good reproduce the error, feel free to contact me in case you need further info.

Greeting from Germany!

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

rcardona2k — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 14:20:10 GMT

Pat Lee or magi, can you confirm whether your reproduction case is on "Santa Rosa" Intel chipsets in LCD-backlit MacBook Pros and new iMacs? I ran into this problem within 30 minutes on an SR MacBook Pro (OS X 10.4.11, Fusion 1.1, 62573), but it simply does not occur on a Core Duo MacBook Pro, OS X 10.5.1, Fusion 1.1, 62573. I know it's no consolation to newer MBP and iMac owners but it would be good know which Macs are affected.

Thanks

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

magi — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:36:31 GMT

I believe what we're wrestling with is a general issue with Mac OS and wireless adapters in promiscuous mode. That's how Fusion's wireless bridging works, and it's also how packet sniffers (tcpdump, ethereal, wireshark) work. If I run Fusion in bridged mode long enough on my wireless network, all networking breaks (in the VM, and also in the Mac OS host machine). The same thing also happens if I run tcpdump long enough on the same MacBook without Fusion running.

The fact that running a packet sniffer causes the same bug we're trying to detect made all this troubleshooting a lot harder, as you can imagine. A nice example of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle as it mimetically applies to computer systems.

We're retooling our code to avoid what, to me, looks to be an OS X networking bug (which, if true, explains why people see the same symptoms with and without Fusion, but more often with Fusion). Stay tuned for more information.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

Pat Lee — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:31:12 GMT

A quick update. We now have a reproducible case for one of these bridged wireless issues thanks to Matt G. We are working on a fix for it now. I should let Matt talk about what he found.

I don't have a timeline yet, but I am happy to have a repro case that allows us to fix at least one of the issues causing this problem.

More details as I have them.

Pat

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

tk_mitchell — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:45:43 GMT

Are you looking for additional captures?

I have a MacBookPro (Santa Rosa) and a Buffalo G54 running tomato firmware.
I am having the problem and don't believe it has anything to do with the access point.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

Pat Lee — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:39:52 GMT

Brian,

Thanks for capturing the logs. I replied to your private message. I am hoping this gives us some more insight into what is happening here.

Thanks,

Pat

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

bdprince70 — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 06:12:58 GMT

I did the capture. If anyone else is new to Mac's/Unix here are some helpful hints:

There is a post about enabling the root but I used the commands from this post: http://communities.vmware.com/message/783083 to start fusion (just don't suspend/snapshot unless you want to fix permissions see the post)
1) Open Terminal.app from the folder /Applications/Utilities.
2) At the Terminal prompt, type: sudo "/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/MacOS/vmware"
3) Enter your password

Then ran Wireshark on the XP guest and the two terminal windows on the mac with the other two capture commands which put the files in the tmp folder. I could navigate to them in terminal... but I know this is really lame, I didn't know an easy way to copy. cp? I'm a mac newbie so it took a few google searches to figure out to use the finder go menu to navigate to the tmp folder. Moved them to my desktop and waiting to hear how to send them to vmware.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

mpower — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:25:35 GMT

Sorry - my last post was actually a mis sent email I was sending to somebody else who makes the software I need to run on windows - I was asking for a mac version - it was not meant for this post! funny! sorry about that.

M.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

Pat Lee — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:23:01 GMT

We still cannot reproduce the problem with wireless bridged networking that some people are seeing though we have tried very, many things based on the information people have already made available. I know that tech support has been working with various people to get more info, but the following debug information would helpful for those more technically savvy would be helpful:

1. A sniffer trace from inside the VM using ethereal/wireshark (available for both Windows and Linux), in PCAP format. Name the file "guest.pcap"
2. A sniffer trace on the bridged virtual switch (vmnet0):
sudo /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/vmnet-sniffer -w /tmp/vmnet0.cap vmnet0
This file is called "vmnet0.cap"
3. A sniffer trace on the AirPort wireless NIC (en1):
sudo tcpdump -s 0 -n -i en1 -w /tmp/en1.cap
This file is called "en1.cap"

All 3 traces should be collected at the same time, so we can corellate what's going on at different points of the software stacks.

For those can help us with this information, it would be apprecaited.

Best,

Pat

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

mpower — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:41:59 GMT

Thanks mate. With the windows - I said having to is becoming - I
should rephrase that, for me, having to run windows is absolutely
right now a legacy issue and a major inconvenience. Hopefully I'm not
the only customer who thinks so and they can do a version that runs on
mac one day soon. Ok I'll shut up about that now just wanted to make
my point.

Regards,
Miklos.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

bdprince70 — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 02:09:54 GMT

If there is no update is there some kind of debug mode I can run in to provide more information? Bonjour was making printing a non-issue and now it's kind of a PIA. Happy to collect more data if it helps get the bridged networking working again.

thanks

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

JYork — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:23:14 GMT

I just tried moving a Windows XP VM from my Windows machine. The bridged networking works on this one VM with an Ethernet connection and Airport disabled. I have not upgraded the VMtools. I remember that bridged networking was functional for a few days on the other three VMs (Windows XP, Windows 2003 Storage Server, and Redhat Fedora 7) before it stopped. Maybe upgrading the tools is what's killing bridged mode networking? I wish I had tried installing the VMware Workstation 6 tools into the Fusion VMs before I gave up on them. Would anyone like to see if this fixes bridged networking on their Fusion VMs?

My system config was posted above, but at the moment I'm using Fusion 1.1RC1 and OS X 10.4.10 latest.

Update:

Using the Workstation 6 tools did not ultimately work, as I went home and the bridged mode networking stopped working again for three days, so...

After a clean install of Leopard, and Fusion 1.1RC1 (61385), the issues I was having with bridged (wired) networking are gone. FOR NOW. I will report back if that changes.

Message was edited by: JYork

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

wingdo — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 03:23:35 GMT

Any update on this yet guys? It's been months since I've been able to use my VM.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

mpower — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:21:26 GMT

imac 2.0ghz 2Gb RAM white core 2 duo airport
connecting to airport extreme - latest updates applied.
Mac OSX 10.5
problems with NAT = network services dropped after 30 seconds, reconnect, same again. Includes local network file access and visibility of the machien but not bonjour printing from within the same machine (from windows xp to the mac that holds the printer) - edit I should add as well that within mac osx it still appears that I have network reception and am still logged on to the right network but not network or internet for either the mac or XP.
problems with bridge - above issues resolved but bonjour printing not possible from within windows, even though windows shows the printer ok and ready, try to print causes crash after a long wait. Apple bonjour printer wizard shows no printers available (even though they are) - switch back to nat printers work, rest of network goes down.
the airport extreme only allows one or another form of 802.11n compatibility, so I have n with b and g compatibility turned on, instead of "n only".
M.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

aspir — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:46:31 GMT

1) What Mac do you have?

Macbook, 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

2) What version of Mac OS X are you running?

Mac OS X 10.5

3) Are you running B, G, N or a combination of wireless networking technologies?

B

4) What base station are you connected to?

Some unknown enterprise wireless antenna

5) Have you applied the latest Airport Update from 7/30 and does it help?

Yes it's installed, no it didn't do anything

6) If you are using N networking, if you drop back to G or B networking, does the problem occur?

n/a

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

bdprince70 — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 04:46:13 GMT

If you are having problems with bridged wireless networking:

1) What Mac do you have?
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac7,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz

2) What version of Mac OS X are you running?
System Version: Mac OS X 10.5 (9A581)
Kernel Version: Darwin 9.0.0

3) Are you running B, G, N or a combination of wireless networking technologies?
N (b/g compatible) is set on the base station. I have an airport express and other laptops that only have b/g. I also don't know how to set the iMac to only use b/g rather than N (first week with a Mac)

4) What base station are you connected to?
Apple AirPort Extreme with 802.11n (Gigabit Ethernet)

5) Have you applied the latest Airport Update from 7/30 and does it help?
Both the iMac and Airport have all available updates installed including the iMac update that came out last week for the aluminum iMacs.

6) If you are using N networking, if you drop back to G or B networking, does the problem occur?
I don't know how to force the internal iMac airport card to G/B. I think someone else in the thread asked as well, but if anyone can tell me how to get at the airport device settings that would be great. The system preferences for airport doesn't seem to support that type of change.

I changed to NAT from Bridged (not what I'm really looking for) but it seems to be a workaround for now.

If there are instructions to hard set the iMac to b/g I'd be happy to try and report the results.
Thanks

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

jbfryman — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:07:56 GMT

1) What Mac do you have?

MacBook Pro, 2.3 GHz C2D

2) What version of Mac OS X are you running?

10.4.10

3) Are you running B, G, N or a combination of wireless networking technologies?

B+G

4) What base station are you connected to?

Several (large corporate wireless spans multiple buildings, various Cisco + Linksys units)

5) Have you applied the latest Airport Update from 7/30 and does it help?

All patches applied and current

6) If you are using N networking, if you drop back to G or B networking, does the problem occur?

Yes.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

Tony Arnold — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 03:26:56 GMT

NAT works for me, however bridged has stopped functioning under my CentOS 4.5 VMs. This is a fresh install of 1.1RC1 under a clean install of Leopard.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

JYork — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:41:11 GMT

I have tried VMware 1.1RC1, and it has the same issues. Bridged networking still does not work for me with Airport OR Ethernet.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

TheAngryPenguin — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:34:03 GMT

EliJG wrote:

VMware sometimes seems to go into suspension if I leave it unattended for a while. I'll return to find VMware either gone entirely or open with the big "play" button in the middle of a blank vm window.

In the Power Options Properties applet, try changing the following to "Never":

Turn off monitor
Turn off hard disks
System standby

...for both "Plugged in" and "Running on batteries".

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

wingdo — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:05:41 GMT

No word back from VMware since Sept 19?

Any update guys? I purchased Fusion under the pre-order state, but have not been able to use it. Since Fusion still does not work is it possible to get a refund at this point? I do not foresee this getting resolved without Fusion generating its own MAC address for the wireless adapter.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

FluffyDevilBunny — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:00:33 GMT

1) What Mac do you have?

Mac Book Pro 17"

2) What version of Mac OS X are you running?

10.4.10

3) Are you running B, G, N or a combination of wireless networking technologies?

B and G depending on location

4) What base station are you connected to?

Depends on location. Mostly Cisco at work and Linksys (also Cisco) at home. Not sure what Starbucks uses.

5) Have you applied the latest Airport Update from 7/30 and does it help?

Don't know. Mac says there are no updates for my computer. If this is a hotfix, not sure where you manually download it from.

6) If you are using N networking, if you drop back to G or B networking, does the problem occur?

N/A

I am unable to bind VMWare to the wireless card at all. I can only use CAT5/6 type connections.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

osultan — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:40:45 GMT

1) What Mac do you have? MBP 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

2) What version of Mac OS X are you running? 10.4.10

3) Are you running B, G, N or a combination of wireless networking technologies? Combination

4) What base station are you connected to? Airport Extreme, various Cisco access points

5) Have you applied the latest Airport Update from 7/30 and does it help? Yes, no

6) If you are using N networking, if you drop back to G or B networking, does the problem occur? n/a

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

whosyourtator — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:42:03 GMT

Can we please get an update from VMWare on this issue? Have you made any headway on it?

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

JYork — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:06:06 GMT

1) What Mac do you have?

MBP Santa Rosa 2.2 Ghz, 2G RAM

2) What version of Mac OS X are you running?

10.4.10

3) Are you running B, G, N or a combination of wireless networking technologies?

I cannot get a DHCP address whether I use my G access point, or an ethernet cable.

4) What base station are you connected to?

Dlink DGW

5) Have you applied the latest Airport Update from 7/30 and does it help?

Yes, it does not help.

6) If you are using N networking, if you drop back to G or B networking, does the problem occur?

This happens whether I'm wired or wireless. I've tried XP 32bit, W2K3 64bit, and Fedora Core 7 32 bit. Bridged networking isn't usable in any VM at this point. So far, this seems to happen 100% of the time. The XP VM worked for about 3 days before flaking out.

Justin York

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

EliJG — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:38:53 GMT

My Mac seems to work fine until I launch VMware. Then a couple of things happen:
- Network connections inside Windows XP Pro (fully service packed) are intermittent
- The wireless connection for my Mac will sometimes just stop and the signal indicator shows no signal. When I reconnect, it comes back.
- VMware sometimes seems to go into suspension if I leave it unattended for a while. I'll return to find VMware either gone entirely or open with the big "play" button in the middle of a blank vm window.

1) What Mac do you have?
MacBook Pro 15" 2.33GHz Core 2 Duo

2) What version of Mac OS X are you running?
10.4.10

3) Are you running B, G, N or a combination of wireless networking technologies?
Base stations are AirPort Extreme N connected by gigabit Ethernet. Laptop is running N, though other devices are running G.

4) What base station are you connected to?
AirPort Extreme N / Gigabit

5) Have you applied the latest Airport Update from 7/30 and does it help?
Yes, and it does not help.

6) If you are using N networking, if you drop back to G or B networking, does the problem occur?
I have not had the time to reconfigure to try this.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

kazoo — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:01:06 GMT

In my case, I probably had a corrupted IE after my install. I was able to (sometimes) ping other sites, etc. I have a working IE, which is IE7 now.

1. Internet Explorer didn't work, but networking, such as ftp, did. I was able to resolve this on my own by ftp'ing the Opera web browser. I installed Opera & used it to download Firefox, & used Firefox to download IE7. I installed IE7 and now that works! So IE not working is resolved.

2. My boot camp partition is no longer bootable using bootcamp. This is still broke, as far as I know. I'd like to either be able to migrate that partition into a Fusion image or get bootcamp to work right. But at least I'm up & running reasonably well. (This is off topic to this thread, I know)

I would still like to be able to use bootcamp to boot up this partition, but I sure am happier today than I was yesterday.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

piacentini — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:25:07 GMT

I am also having this trouble. In my case, it was not occurring when I had a Linksys WRT54G with DD-WRT. Two weeks ago I exchanged this WRT54G for an Airport Express, and the problem surfaced. Using a MBP, 10.4.10, Fusion 1.1 beta.

What happens in this case is that after some random time DNS queries do not resolve, and the host network goes down. Ping does not work, even if the airport status shows that it is connected. Notice that it happens EVEN if the guest is not running. When this happens, it seems to cause some lines in the system.log, like

Oct 22 10:38:54 MauMacBook mDNSResponder: getifaddrs ifa_netmask for vmnet8(8) Flags 8863 Family 2 192.168.8.1 has different family: 0
Oct 22 10:38:54 MauMacBook mDNSResponder: getifaddrs ifa_netmask for vmnet1(9) Flags 8863 Family 2 192.168.114.1 has different family: 0
Oct 22 10:38:54 MauMacBook mDNSResponder: Repeated transitions for interface en1 (10.0.1.2); delaying packets by 5 seconds

The first two can be found at different intervals in the logs, usually 15 minutes apart. And sometimes they are followed by the one with error (delaying packets.) And that seems to be related to the ocasions when the network goes down.

In this particular setup I am using WEP security (to be compatible with older 10.2 clients). Windows sharing is also on, not sure if it makes a difference. I will try now with no encryption to see if reliability increases.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

kazoo — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 04:19:27 GMT

Thanks for letting me know. I might end up needing the hardwired idea.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

DeLellis — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 03:07:41 GMT

Well, this doesn't solve the problem, but...

I found that Fusion works GREAT IF you turn off Airport and just access the network via an Ethernet cable. Like I said, this is a work around we shouldn't have to resort to, and this does NOT solve the problem or crashing the network when running wirelessly with Airport turned on.

Now that I've had an opportunity to run Fusion for more than a couple of minutes I've got to say that Fusion is a great program. In fact, I uninstalled Parallels today. I was amazed to find out you can just drag and drop files from the Finder to the Windows XP desktop, and running in the Unity mode makes the experience of running a Windows program as "Mac-like" as possible.

BTW, FYI I'm running a MacBook Pro 17 Core Duo 2 with 3 GB RAM on an Airport Extreme 802.11n network.

VMware please solve the Airport problem ASAP!!

Bob

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

kazoo — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 02:51:51 GMT

NAT works very poorly. I can get Internet Explorer to show its home page, but that's it. I can ping some addresses, but never pull up a web site that isn't the home page. I can't get bridged networking to work at all.

1) What Mac do you have?

MacBook Pro

2) What version of Mac OS X are you running?

10.4.10

Model Name: MacBook Pro 17"
Model Identifier: MacBookPro2,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.33 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP21.00A5.B07
SMC Version: 1.14f5

3) Are you running B, G, N or a combination of wireless networking technologies?
G

4) What base station are you connected to?
Linksys WRT54G

5) Have you applied the latest Airport Update from 7/30 and does it help?
I run the system updater, so I assume so, but don't know

6) If you are using N networking, if you drop back to G or B networking, does the problem occur?

N/A

I am sure the networking folks will have more questions, but I would like to start here.

Thanks for your help in trying help us to better understand what is going on.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

squirrelfeast — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:58:59 GMT

1) What Mac do you have?
MacBook Pro 2.4 Ghz "Santa Rosa"

2) What version of Mac OS X are you running?
10.4.10 with all updates.

3) Are you running B, G, N or a combination of wireless networking technologies?
G

4) What base station are you connected to?
Linksys WRT54G v.3

5) Have you applied the latest Airport Update from 7/30 and does it help?
Yes. No.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

Bobbernickle — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 05:19:55 GMT

I'm a new Fusion user and am having this problem. Here is my setup:

1) What Mac do you have?

MacBook Pro, 2.16 Intel Core 2

2) What version of Mac OS X are you running?

10.4.10 w/all patches

3) Are you running B, G, N or a combination of wireless networking technologies?

G

4) What base station are you connected to?

Apple Airport Extreme

5) Have you applied the latest Airport Update from 7/30 and does it help?

Applied. Doesn't help.

6) If you are using N networking, if you drop back to G or B networking, does the problem occur?

My gear doesn't support N.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

mjankor — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:59:04 GMT

Dammit, After saying WEP looked ok I left Fusion for 5 mins and it had killed the network when i returned to it. Pinging while trying to copy files across from the server showed an 80% packet loss.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

mjankor — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:48:38 GMT

This may help. This testing was done over an Airport extreme network (802.11n) to an 802.11G Mac Mini (10.0.1.201) from my 802.11n iMac

Experiments with network encryption turned off.
Other than these interesting ping results the Fusion environment seems to work "ok". If I turn WPA encryption on, then the Fusion environment network dies and takes out the Mac's network as well. This only happens on the 802.11N Airport Extreme. On my 802.11G Express network I can run encryption with no problems.

Without VMWare fusion running

Ping has started ...

PING 10.0.1.201 (10.0.1.201): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.817 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.832 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=1.462 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.838 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.841 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=1.324 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=0.843 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=0.835 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=0.878 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=9 ttl=64 time=0.844 ms

10.0.1.201 ping statistics ---

10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.817/0.951/1.462/0.223 ms

With VMWare Fusion Running

Ping has started ...

PING 10.0.1.201 (10.0.1.201): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.451 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=3.312 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.496 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=3.400 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=1.470 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=4.379 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=1.453 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=3.784 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=1.465 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=3.393 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=1.403 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=3.299 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=1.422 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=2.503 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=1.531 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=15.362 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=4.251 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=6.431 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=9 ttl=64 time=1.520 ms

10.0.1.201 ping statistics ---

10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, +9 duplicates, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 1.403/3.333/15.362/3.149 ms

Here are ping results running WEP with Fusion open. (Ping results with Fusion closed are essentially the same as with no encryption and Fusion closed.)

Ping has started ...

PING 10.0.1.201 (10.0.1.201): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=5.313 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=4.938 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=3.337 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=3.904 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=2.969 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=2.621 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=3.463 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=4.463 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=5.328 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=9 ttl=64 time=3.544 ms

10.0.1.201 ping statistics ---

10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 2.621/3.988/5.328/0.921 ms

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

michaelr — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 19:10:27 GMT

This is another problem. For me the DHCP works fine. Windows XP has an IP address. All non-broadcast traffic fails however. It is a problem in VMware when it tries to use bridged mode with the wireless.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

talk2sk — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 05:50:56 GMT

I believe I have a solution to this, at least it works for me.

After many hours of frustration, I realized that this problem was not related to the host at least as a problem. The network works perfectly fine from Ubuntu. I had trouble only on Windows XP With wireless as well as wired adapter. The network was working when I installed the virtual machine, but then just stopped. After searching high and low I found a couple of websites not related to VMWare that allowed me to debug the issue once I tried ipconfig /renew and it failed with RPC Server not available:

http://www.delphifaq.com/faq/delphi/network/f83.shtml?p=7

Once I tried query the settings for netbt and start netbt, I found that netbt was the cause for the problem. for some reason it just fails to start. hence the dhcp client cannot start. I tried a couple of things to debug this, but I wasnt able to. So I went into the registry and removed netbt from the dependson for the dhcp service. After a reboot everything works fine !!.

I am sure the netbt service is still failingm but the dhcp is working fine.

Hope this helps you, and hope this helps vmware solve the problem. If the vmware guys require any further information I could setup remote access for the macbook and you could play around

Cheers.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

michaelr — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 23:22:01 GMT

To VMware:

if we had an internal example of this problem, we'd have it fixed by now

What APs and routers have you been able to successfully work with? There are a number of devices listed in this thread which do not work. It would be of benefit to users if you could tells us which ones do work. I have tried several different models from 4 different vendos so far and can't find one which works. I'd be willing to use a 5 vendor's product if I knew it would work.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

gammelkamel — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:16:09 GMT

I agree.
I am completely new to mac. I have a brand new macbook (september 07, can't say specifications).
At work I am unable to run bridged wireless network - unless I plug in an ethernet cable. Then everything works fine, even if I remove the cable. It seems, that I can connect to the access point, but don't get an ip-address.
The accesspoints are a bit un-common, from Meru Networks. Worked fine when I ran Parallels though

At home on my old b-type network, there's no problem.

So, please come up with a solution very soon.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

wingdo — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:57:11 GMT

Well, it's been 2 months since Pat created this post and the issue was known before the post was created. During these 2 months, the last word from vmware is that they still cannot reporduce the problem.

Sadly, I need to work in a bridged environment so I have had to go back to PD for now as I do not see a resolution coming shortly.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

whosyourtator — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:17:20 GMT

I there an update on this issue? I have tried everything in
my vm in order to use bridged mode without disconnects. I have
reinstalled Fusion, manually specified the mac address, removed the use
of DHCP. I still get disconnects from my airport router only when using
Fusion. Could you allow us to confgure the bridged mac address in Fusion? Maybe that would fix it.

Best Regards

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

whosyourtator — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 03:50:54 GMT

VMware is using the same mac address for both the guest os and host adapter which causes network issues.

1) What Mac do you have?

Macbook Pro 2.4 GHZ

2) What version of Mac OS X are you running?

10.4.10

3) Are you running B, G, N or a combination of wireless networking technologies?

N

4) What base station are you connected to?

Apple Airport Extreme 802.11n Router

5) Have you applied the latest Airport Update from 7/30 and does it help?

Yes, using version 7.2.1 firmware.

6) If you are using N networking, if you drop back to G or B networking, does the problem occur?

Problem occurs regardless of N, G, or B

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

fauzzo — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:02:23 GMT

hallo,

I got the same issue: when connecting OS X wireless to my netgear dg834 router, XP virtual machine was causing error messages and the wireless network link were lost. I am using router's DHCP and WPA security.

Like somebody else has suggested here, I have set a fixed IP to the virtual host XP and I have disabled the "Zero Configuration" service from XP.

The problem seems to be gone in this way.

No problem when using wired lan.

I am using a mac book core 2 duo. OS X 10.4.10 with dhcp for both wired and wireless network.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

magi — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:34:48 GMT

Thanks for the continuing feedback and patience, everyone. From all the info we've seen so far, I do think that the problem is specifically related to WPA. (But I'm personally using Fusion against a couple different base stations configured for WPA, with no problems. That's not to discount the problems that you all are reporting, just to explain why it's hard to track down.)

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

kban — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:28:04 GMT

If it helps, this is the error message from the airport basestation when the "network compromised" message comes up

Sep 18 20:29:48 Severity:1 MIC integrity error (reported from STA) src_addr=00:1c:b3:b3:b3:ee

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

etung — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:01:41 GMT

I had this problem with both Windows and Linux
virtual machines. I solved it by uninstalling VMWare
Fusion and then reinstalling VMWare fusion.

I had migrated from one Mac to another...perhaps that
was the cause?

That would cause networking problems but is also not what this thread is about. If you just migrate Fusion over, a bunch of things are expected to break including networking and Boot Camp.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

etung — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:59:43 GMT

See magi's post - we want to fix it, but haven't been able to reproduce it.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

michaelr — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:45:56 GMT

It there any chance VMware will fix this problem or should we just give up? They have known about it for months but no fix and no indication that they are even looking at it.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

kban — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:25:33 GMT

1) What Mac do you have?

Macbook core duo (new)

2) What version of Mac OS X are you running?

10.4.10

3) Are you running B, G, N or a combination of wireless networking technologies?

Airport extreme N & G

4) What base station are you connected to?

aa

5) Have you applied the latest Airport Update from 7/30 and does it help?

yes, no

6) If you are using N networking, if you drop back to G or B networking, does the problem occur?

don't think I can do that

The problem started when I replaced my Linksys WAG54G with the airport extreme. I wonder if the problem relates to the WPA security since I had no problems for a few weeks running Fusion using WEP security. Now I get random lockups of the network connectivity and quite frequently I get the annoying popup box telling me the network has been compromised and will be shut down for a minute. When it gets to this point turning airport off then on doesn't help (otherwise this often resurrects connectivity).

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

ruleboy — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:14:38 GMT

I had this problem with both Windows and Linux virtual machines. I solved it by uninstalling VMWare Fusion and then reinstalling VMWare fusion.

I had migrated from one Mac to another...perhaps that was the cause?

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

kalex — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 04:30:15 GMT

Are there any updates on this issue? i just bought a macbook and ran into same problem. my problem is that with airport running i can't even get IP assiged from my DHCP server. my settings are:

1) What Mac do you have?

Macbook c2d 2.16, 3GB, 120GB

2) What version of Mac OS X are you running?

10.4.10 with latest updates.

3) Are you running B, G, N or a combination of wireless networking technologies?

Only B and G

4) What base station are you connected to?

Linksys WAP54G

5) Have you applied the latest Airport Update from 7/30 and does it help?

Yep

6) If you are using N networking, if you drop back to G or B networking, does the problem occur?

No N

My DHCP server is my firewall netscreen 5xp. Macbook works perfectly on my WAP54G, so as other devices. all obtain IP addresses. VM refuses to obtain IP in bridged mode. works fine in NAT.

Please help

Alex

Thanks for your help in trying help us to better understand what is going on.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

Mij — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:50:20 GMT

I'm seeing the same problem here - or so I think, because I am not sure if it can be linked to VMware in my case. But after some googling, this page is the only result that seems relatable to my situation. So I'm reporting in case it helps.

My TKIP MIC problem seems to be strangely rare; today it happened for the very first time (twice!), though I have been using VMware for about a month, with normal - heavy downloading from the bridged wifi (all the needed updates for a fresh install of WinXP SP2 + Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition updates + ( SVN connections through a CheckPoint VPN-1 SecureClient) + Oracle client + random web surfing).

I am not sure about exactly what was going on the first time it happened, but the second one was during a 500 MB copy through Windows filesharing (I was downloading from a XP laptop which was the only other user of the Wifi at the moment). Both details are first-timers (downloading that much from a Windows share AND from this particular user), so perhaps they are important.

I have tried to repeat the transfer three times, and the problem has not appeared again...

My data:
Linksys router, WRT54GL v1.1, 11g networking
MacBook Core2Duo 2.16 GHz
OS X 10.4.10 (fully updated except for QuickTime and iTunes, which I guess won't matter)

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

wingdo — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 01:26:49 GMT

First, we (VMware) are definitely listening, and
we're thankful both for your patience and for the
wealth of information you're providing. If we had an
internal example of this problem, we'd have it fixed
by now

Well that sure doesn't give me a warm fuzzy feeling. You can't even reproduce this? Good lord, I can't stop it from happening.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

nesmex — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 01:15:32 GMT

I'm glad VMWare is listening and working to solve this annoying issue

Nevertheless, I'm experiencing dropouts in my bridged wireless network and I do NOT have any WRT54G hardware installed.

I am running a 2Wire modem (1701HG Gateway) and an Airport Extreme (n) connected via Ethernet to the modem, so the wireless signal is coming from the Airport. The IP's are being provided by the 2WIRE, since the Airport base station is set to bridge mode. I am connected to my ISP by PPPoE through the 2Wire.

As I posted previously, every 3 out of 5 times that I boot up Vista within Fusion I do not have internet connectivity in Windows, if I switch to OSX, I can navigate.

Some other times I even lose internet access in both the host and the guest, this is happening more often now than in past weeks. BTW I got the "... your network has been compromised and will be unavailable for 60 seconds..." once.

In other occasions, I boot and have network connectivity and all seems to work fine for a while, all of a sudden the Internet access is lost.

I've tried using the Ipconfig release and renew command without success. For now, my work around is a 3Party Software, Network Magic.

As you can see, at least in my case this is very erratic behavior, but it is happening more frequently lately.

I used to have the same exact setup in Parallels and this never happened to me.

BTW: MBC2D, 10.4.10, Airport Extreme card firmware 1.1.9.3, Airport Extreme 802.11n (fast Ethernet) Ver 7.2.1, Windows Vista Business, with all patches applied.

Don't want to use NAT since I would lose access to my Bonjour printer and my shared HD's connected to the Airport

Regards,

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

magi — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 00:20:16 GMT

Hi everyone, I'd like to make 2 points here:

First, we (VMware) are definitely listening, and we're thankful both for your patience and for the wealth of information you're providing. If we had an internal example of this problem, we'd have it fixed by now Since we don't, we can only conclude that there are many base stations/network configurations we're compatible with and some that we're not, and so we're trying to gather information from those of you that have examples that aren't working.

Second, if you're having this problem with a WRT54G, which version? I ask because I used to see some of the same symptoms between my MBP and a WRT54G before Fusion even existed... more specifically, I have two WRT54Gs, one really old one (v1.1) which ran (and continues to run) fine with an MBP, with or without Fusion, and with various different firmware (stock, DD-WRT, OpenWRT), and a second newer one (v5) which in my experience works fine with PCs and horribly with MBPs. Using the MBP (without Fusion!) against the WRT54G v5, DHCP didn't work at all, and using a static IP, things would work fine for 10-15 minutes and then lock up the base station so that nobody in the house, PC or Mac, had wireless access until I rebooted it. I ended up replacing that base station and have never tried Fusion with it, but short story is some of these same problems people are reporting here are possible even without Fusion, and the various revisions of WRT54G are really not the same product (I wish they didn't use the same model number!), and if you have a WRT54G and see this problem, please tell us the version number as well.

Meanwhile, we are continuing to investigate this internally with a variety of base stations and configurations, and continuing to listen to you all, and we have every intention of making this work flawlessly.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

stevenoetic — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:32:56 GMT

I agree completely. I know these things happen, and I know fixes take time. I even knew there was an issue when I purchased 32 days ago. Please, VMWare, give me some real news to make an informed decision on! I'm getting tired leaning on Parallels build 3188, but it's my most reliable solution so far.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

lawrance — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 10:59:54 GMT

I agree that some form of response is required - sooner rather than later. These things happen and I'm quite willing to wait for a fix, as long as I have the necessary information to make a decision inside the 30 day refund window.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

Xipper — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:27:35 GMT

I assume the "bridged network issue" is the one that results in the airport process' high cpu utilization.

1) What Mac do you have?
MBP 2.4Ghz (Santa Rosa)

2) What version of Mac OS X are you running?
10.4.10 with all public updates

3) Are you running B, G, N or a combination of wireless networking technologies?
B and G

4) What base station are you connected to?
Linksys, Cisco, others

5) Have you applied the latest Airport Update from 7/30 and does it help?
applied, no help

6) If you are using N networking, if you drop back to G or B networking, does the problem occur?
not tested

-
any ETA on a resolution to this? This is a major issue, and NAT is not a viable option for anyone using IPSEC or VoIP. This either needs to be resolved or VMware should start offering refunds.

VMware should also step up to the plate and offer all users that purchased this "beta" copy of 1.0 full support until after at least the common bugs are resolved. Of course, this doesn't add value when the support department is incapable of providing meaningful support anyway.

The product is no longer "beta", so why are we suffering through problems that should have been resolved from Beta testing?

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

wingdo — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:48:10 GMT

Is any progress being made on this major bug? It has been a month since Pat asked for feedback and there hasn't been one word from vmware in this thread since then about the issue.

As someone who has moved from Parallels to vmware, I am amazed at how calm this thread has been. If PD went a month without responding to a bug which kept killing OS X's network connection, their forums would be jumping with people complaining, while everyone over here on these forums would be laughing at how PD isn't responding to the issue.

I need to have a stable network connection. It would be bad if the VM's network connection died. HAving the host's network connection die as well is unacceptable for a release product.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

lajaro — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:19:30 GMT

Looking further into this problem (bridged networks with the Airport card in SR MBPs). and trying out some of the suggested resolutions, I came across an interesting log entry in the system.log file:

Sep 4 12:21:00 LJR-MBP kernel[0] Your ethernet driver is not compatible with vmware's bridged networking.

Funny enough, after a search I haven't found any other posts citing a reference to this log entry.

Anyone else?

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

lawrance — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:56:32 GMT

Running freebsd 6.2 as a guest, system locks up when scp'ing files across the network - if the interface is set up in "bridged" mode. Does not occur with "host only" mode.
http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=101274&tstart=0

1) What Mac do you have?

Mac Mini 1.83ghz core duo
Wireless Card Type: AirPort Extreme (0x168C, 0x86)
Wireless Card Locale: Worldwide
Wireless Card Firmware Version: 1.1.9.3

2) What version of Mac OS X are you running?

10.4.10

3) Are you running B, G, N or a combination of wireless networking technologies?

G

4) What base station are you connected to?

D-Link DI-524

5) Have you applied the latest Airport Update from 7/30 and does it help?

System is up to date, no it does not help

6) If you are using N networking, if you drop back to G or B networking, does the problem occur

Not applicable.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

mbender71 — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:06:57 GMT

Hi everyone,

I'm having the same problems as everyone here has stated where I loose network
connectivity for a second and then it comes back. I only know this because I loose all
my SMB shares from my server and I have to reattach them. But that is where my
similarity ends! Everyone here is talking about wireless where as I do NOT run wireless
on this machine. I am straight 1000BaseT to my server, but there is an Airport Extreme
set to 802.11n only for my other machines. I have not tested the Bridge vs. NAT solution
yet but hopefully this week I will. I REALLY love running Fusion in Unity mode but it was
quite annoying this long weekend as I kept loosing my servers. Last night I killed Fusion
and left my SMB connects and *POOF* they were still attached in the morning where as
when Fusion was running I'd get 15 minutes if I was lucky.

1) Aluminum 24" iMac w/3GB

2) OS X 10.4.10

3) Not on this machine. Airport is turned OFF. There is an airport extreme on the network
though.

4) Airport extreme w/802.11n exclusive

5) Latest firmware and software installed, does not help

6) Again, I get dropped off without wireless.. I'm not sure this is a "wireless" issue, you're
just hearing from a large number of wireless people

Many thanks and keep up the GREAT work!! VMware is the best!

Michael Bender
Orlando, FL

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

mickymac — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:45:01 GMT

Came across this info suggesting that the problem may be associated with WPA network security.

"A message integrity code (MIC) introduced though the 802.11i/WPA standard is a data authenticity mechanism that proves more effective than the integrity check value (ICV) within the original 802.11 standard. The MIC is used within both temporary key integrity protocol (TKIP) and counter-cipher-block chaining medium access control protocol (CCMP). The MIC is a tag computed using a keyed cryptographic function. This tag is transported over an unprotected channel with the data it is associated with. The receiver verifies its value using the same key and cryptographic function used to encode it. The MIC is susceptible to brute force attacks, so each MIC failure is assumed to be an attack. The host station and AP are required to re-key after the first attack. Any station, host station or AP will stop all communications for 60 seconds on a second attack."

I get the "Your wireless network has become compromised. It will now be shut down for 1 minute" message when bridged and am using WPA.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

mortimer snodgras — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 20:48:44 GMT

1. MBP 2.4 (SR)
2. 10.4.10
3. Combination
4. Airport Extreme (802.11n)
5. Yes, no.
6. N/A

Problem doesn't seem to occur (or at least less frequently) with NAT. Haven't tried bridged with static IP.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

stevenoetic — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:39:36 GMT

Has there been any update from VMWare on this issue? It's a real show-stopper for me. I bought my license thinking "surely VMWare will figure this one out quickly", but I haven't heard a peep from their end.

Steve

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

wingdo — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 16:58:54 GMT

1) MacBook Pro C2D 2.33GHz 3GB RAM

2) OS X 10.4.10

3) N router with N and G hosts

4) Airport Extreme N, Firmware 7.1.1

5) Yes, No

6) Yes

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

lajaro — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:52:06 GMT

1) What Mac do you have?
- MacBook Pro3,1 - 2.2 GHz Core 2 Duo (SR)

2) What version of Mac OS X are you running?
- 10.4.10

3) Are you running B, G, N or a combination of wireless networking technologies?
- 802.11b/g

4) What base station are you connected to?
- Tried with Linksys WRT54G, Airport Express Base Station & FortiGate Wifi 60A

5) Have you applied the latest Airport Update from 7/30 and does it help?
- No/NA

6) If you are using N networking, if you drop back to G or B networking, does the problem occur?
- N/A

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

philozopher — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:33:17 GMT

(1) MacBook Pro, 15"

Hardware Overview:
Model Name: MacBook Pro 15"
Model Identifier: MacBookPro2,2
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.16 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP22.00A5.B01
SMC Version: 1.12f5

AirPort Card Information:
Wireless Card Type: AirPort Extreme
Wireless Card Locale: USA
Wireless Card Firmware Version: 1.1.9.3
Wireless Channel: 1

(2) Mac OS X 10.4.10 (8R2218)
(3) N
(4) Airport Extreme N, Firmware 7.1.1
(5) Yes. No.
(6) I have no way to tell since I cannot turn off "N" from my MBP or my AirPort

I would really like to use Bridged mode, but it is unusable. I thought it was because of my VPN software (Nortel Contivity), but I have been able to observe the problem even when I'm not connected to the VPN. I don't have this problem with NAT mode, but unfortunately this is not what I want to use. I would like my Windows Guests to be able to operate on my home network as a fully featured network client. I am about to try using a USB Wi-Fi adapter (Belkin F5D7050) to give my guest it's own network adapter to work around this issue. I hope it gets resolved soon!

[UPDATE 2007-08-23 00:38] Using the Belkin adapter proved to be flaky. The connection seemed to be active with a continuous ping (ping -t) to my public router, but Windows was reporting that the network adapter was disconnected. I was connecting to the same router as before. Also, CPU spiked between 77-110% while using the USB adapter. So much for that workaround.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

Equinoxau — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:13:19 GMT

When running in bridged mode, I keep getting the message:

"The wireless network appears to have been compromised and will be disabled for about a minute"."

It also brings down the Cisco 800 WAP at my work for 60 seconds, which was obviously irritating all my colleagues. The error log in IOS shows:

"Aug 23 10:05:30 172.16.11.1 1807: Aug 23 2007 10:05:28 AEST: %DOT11-4-
TKIP_MIC_FAILURE_REPORT: Received TKIP Michael MIC failure report
from the station 001b.63c5.bf65 on the packet (TSC=0x0) encrypted and
protected by pairwise key."

1) What Mac do you have?

MacBook Pro SR 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM.

2) What version of Mac OS X are you running?

Mac OS X 10.4.10 (8R2232)

3) Are you running B, G, N or a combination of wireless networking technologies?

G

4) What base station are you connected to?

Cisco 800

5) Have you applied the latest Airport Update from 7/30 and does it help?

Yes, No

6) If you are using N networking, if you drop back to G or B networking, does the problem occur?

N/A

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

mjankor — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 10:12:24 GMT

Based on the various forum posts, I would like to consolidate and collect more information in this thread. Please respond here even if you responded elsewhere, it will allow us to more easily find trends if everyone responds here:

If you are having problems with bridged wireless networking:

1) What Mac do you have?
iMac 24" 2.33 with 7600GT

2) What version of Mac OS X are you running?
10.4.10

3) Are you running B, G, N or a combination of wireless networking technologies?
B,G &N on an Airport Extreme

4) What base station are you connected to?
Airpoirt Extreme 802.11N with fast ethernet

5) Have you applied the latest Airport Update from 7/30 and does it help?
Yes, and no.

6) If you are using N networking, if you drop back to G or B networking, does the problem occur?
Yes

OK, I've got some weird stuff happening here.
On my Macbook, first generation I have no problems at all running Fusion with bridged over the wireless.
On the iMac 24 I have no problems running bridged over wireless if I use an Airport Express.

If I switch to the Airport Extreme, using exactly the same settings my connection is killed. I can get an IP address from the Airport, but as soon as I try and do any serious work over the network the connection slows right down and is effectively useless. This affects the Mac as well and its networking gets hammered while i'm doing stuff in Fusion.

I hope this is of some help.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

wiraone — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:52:01 GMT

I'm having the same problem as others:

1. MacBook Pro 15" (Core2Duo) bought end of last year
2. MacOSX 10.4.10 updated with all patches available
3. Only G
4. Linksys WRT54G (no problem running Parallels 2.0)
5. I've the latest update, problem persists

One more thing that I observed is, if I'm near to the base station, I rarely get this error.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

nesmex — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 02:17:15 GMT

I've been playing around with VM 1.0 and still have Bridged network issues. Connection status is very erratic, sometimes after booting up I have internet connectivity, others I don't. I have tried uninstalling/reinstalling VM tools, no luck.
I shut down NOD32, still o luck. I ran the windows repair network connection and sometimes it found an error saying an old LSP was installed and preventing accessing the network, uninstalling this service only partially disables Nod32.

This is really annoying. I wouldn't like to swith to NAT, since by doing that I will lose my bonjour pinter and the ability to access my networked disks attached to the Airtport Extreme

Hope you guys come up with a solution real soon

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

DeLellis — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 23:05:42 GMT

Does anyone know, or can someone from VMware post and let us know if anything is being done, or has been done about this issue. It is rendering VMware Fusion useless for me. That 30-day return policy is starting to look really useful, though.

Thanks,

Bob

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

stevenoetic — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:42:59 GMT

I'm still experiencing problems where my Bridged wireless connection will drop, forcing me to toggle my host's airport on/off.

1. MBP CoreDuo (not Core2Duo), 17"
2. Mac OSX 10.4.9
3. Wireless G
4. Linksys WRT54GL, firmware v4.30.9
5. Have not applied Apple's 7/30 Airport Patch
6. Not using N

Notes: Using Fusion 51348. I can pretty reliably cause the drop if I make heavy use of Vault (generates lots of traffic, I assume).

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

Oben — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:46:06 GMT

The key symptom of something wrong with the firewall occurred to me when I added a service to let through, but when I later wanted to edit it, I was not allowed to with a dialogue box saying that it should be controlled via the service tab.

I could not delete any of the new firewall entries I'd added. Perhaps anyone who has installed the latest Adobe CS3 can check if they can add and delete a firewall entry in their "Sharing" system preferences where the firewall settings are located.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

pattheflip — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:29:32 GMT

NAT, Bridged, and Host-Only networking is all leaving me with "limited or no connectivity", so there might be something bigger at play here with my configuration, too.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

Oben — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:10:02 GMT

I don't think it's a breakthrough for everyone but I noticed that my problem extended to other network issues like file sharing and Apple Remote Desktop.

When I went into System Preferences > Sharing > Firewall I noticed some bugs in that not every service that I saw on a default installation were there.

The key was installing Adobe Creative Suite CS3 which played around behind the scenes with the firewall settings and left it wide open some months ago after which I noticed some problems.

In the end I decided to take the file:

/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Sharing.firewall. plist

and replace it with a known good one from a fresh install on a new MBP.

I also uninstalled a program called Little Snitch that was interacting with the firewalls operation.

The network now works without any issues that I have detected so far. Remote Desktop and File Sharing all work now.

So maybe some of the people having issues might have a corrupted firewall like I had. Whether this is a complete fix or not I am not sure but it seems to have improved all network functioning for me at least.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

ajaffarali — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:09:13 GMT

1) MacBook Pro 2.2Ghz/Santa Rosa
2) 10.4.10
3) N
4) D-Link Extreme
5) Applied- doesnt help
6) Havent tried this.

I'm temporarily using NAT and it works. Waiting for the fix

-a

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

DeLellis — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:46:43 GMT

Hi All,

Since giving my bridged VM a static IP address, I
have had no problems at all with the wireless
interface. Could indicate a problem with the DHCP
part of the virtual interface.

Hope this helps

richard

I am also in bridged mode with a static IP (outside the range if IPs in Airport Extreme), but the problem persists.

Bob

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

richardkingsley — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:14:56 GMT

Hi All,

Since giving my bridged VM a static IP address, I have had no problems at all with the wireless interface. Could indicate a problem with the DHCP part of the virtual interface.

Hope this helps

richard

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

DeLellis — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 07:45:36 GMT

I just got the following error message:

"The wireless network appears to have been compromised and will be disabled for about a minute". Just for the record, the computer also loses its ability to tell time. After a few minutes I was able to turn off Airport and restart and get the network connection back up.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

TheAngryPenguin — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 02:02:16 GMT

I just updated to GA and the issue persists.

Device list before joining GA-based VM to network:

[code]Int. MAC Address IP Address
br0 00:19:B9:04:FC:5A 192.168.69.100
eth2 00:17:F2:4B:A9:1D 192.168.69.150[/code]

Device list after joining VM to network:

[code]Int. MAC Address IP Address
br0 00:0C:29:A6:FA:A2 192.168.69.53
br0 00:17:F2:4B:A9:1D 192.168.69.53
br0 00:19:B9:04:FC:5A 192.168.69.100
eth2 00:17:F2:4B:A9:1D 192.168.69.150[/code]

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

mykmelez — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 01:44:44 GMT

5) Have you applied the latest Airport Update from
7/30 and does it help?

I'm applying it now. Will report back afterwards.

It didn't help. But I think my problem is different than the "bridged wireless" issues that are the focus of this thread, since I've now experienced my problem with a wired connection.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

DeLellis — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 01:26:50 GMT

If you are having problems with bridged wireless networking:

1) What Mac do you have?
MBP core 2 duo with 3MG RAM

2) What version of Mac OS X are you running?
10.4.10

3) Are you running B, G, N or a combination of wireless networking technologies?
4 Macs on the network: 1 MBP core 2 duo-802.11n, 2 MB's-802.11n, 1 MBP core duo-802.11g

4) What base station are you connected to?
Airport Extreme V2 802.11n

5) Have you applied the latest Airport Update from 7/30 and does it help?
Yes, before I downloaded the Beta version and now the full version and, no, it doesn't help.

6) If you are using N networking, if you drop back to G or B networking, does the problem occur?
Not sure, but I don't want to mess with my network and don't have time.

Other info:
I had no network connection in VMware when Windows was set to get an IP automatically. Airport uses 10.0.1.x IP address scheme and VMware had an IP address scheme of 192.168.15.x. Windows had internet access, but no access to the Airport network. I assigned a static IP of 10.0.1.212, which is outside the normal range of IP's assigned by the Airport Extreme. With a static IP, both the network and internet became accessible. Soon after, I lost connection with both the MBP and VMware Windows PC to the network. Regaining network connectivity was inconsistent. Stopping and starting Airport worked once, but restarting the MBP was required in another instance.

All the occurred on Sunday 8/05/07 with the BETA version, but it happen again today (Monday 8/06/07) with the final release. All this renders VMware virtually useless.

Bob

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

nesmex — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:41:19 GMT

I Upgraded to the GA release of Fusion and managed to make bridged network work over Airport Extreme (n), but I still have drop out problems, and even after boot up, it does not seem to work, I have to open my browser and get to the configuration page of my ADSL Modem, once I get there I can nevigate elsewhere. BTW, I also was able to configure my printer using Bonjour and access my Shred Drives attached to Airport Extreme.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

kpaul — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 03:32:40 GMT

Please disregard. I have successfully enable wireless networking.

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kpaul

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

pattheflip — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 23:05:53 GMT

i haven't been able to get NAT or bridged mode working - i used to run NAT, but it mysteriously broke about a month ago.

1) What Mac do you have?
MacBook 2ghz Core Duo

2) What version of Mac OS X are you running?

10.4.10

3) Are you running B, G, N or a combination of wireless networking technologies?

Combination

4) What base station are you connected to?

Apple software basestation, 2Wire 2701HG-B Gateway, tried a whole bunch of others too

5) Have you applied the latest Airport Update from 7/30 and does it help?

Yes, no

6) If you are using N networking, if you drop back to G or B networking, does the problem occur?

n/a

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

tiag — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 07:34:32 GMT

Based on the various forum posts, I would like to consolidate and collect more information in this thread. Please respond here even if you responded elsewhere, it will allow us to more easily find trends if everyone responds here:

If you are having problems with bridged wireless networking:

1) What Mac do you have?

Santa Rose MBP, 4 GB ram

2) What version of Mac OS X are you running?
10.4.10

3) Are you running B, G, N or a combination of wireless networking technologies?
G - Ruckus Wireless

4) What base station are you connected to?
Ruckus Wireless

5) Have you applied the latest Airport Update from 7/30 and does it help?
All patched up

6) If you are using N networking, if you drop back to G or B networking, does the problem occur?
n/a

I have bought a copy and expect you guys will fix the problem within the next week, otherwise the software is useless without a network....currenly I am back in using parallels, as it works.....reason for me to use VM fusion is the USB 2.0 support.

Good luck
tiag

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

nesmex — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 02:31:17 GMT

Can not make Bridged wireless network work at all

1) What Mac do you have?

MacBook 1.83GHz Core 2 Duo, 2G RAM

2) What version of Mac OS X are you running?

10.4.10 build 8R2232, my VM uses Windows Vista with all the patches applied

3) Are you running B, G, N or a combination of wireless networking technologies?

N

4) What base station are you connected to?

Airport Extreme which is connected via ethernet to a 2Wire modem. BTW I used to have the same setup using Parallels in Bridged mode an it worked pretty well.

5) Have you applied the latest Airport Update from 7/30 and does it help?

Yes, Update applied it does not help

6) If you are using N networking, if you drop back to G or B networking, does the problem
occur?

Yes. I took the Airport extreme out of the equation and tried connecting directly to the 2Wire using its wireless capabiltiy in B/G mode, it didn't work either

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

TheAngryPenguin — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 01:28:47 GMT

Please note that the WRT54G isn't very well supported
under MacOSX. Half the time you can't connect to
those damn things. Stupid wireless router thingy.
Even without VMWare Fusion installed, we had to buy a
different wireless router so my Apple computers could
connect to the wireless network at home.

I have had absolutely no problems with the WRT54G. I guess I am lucky to have an older version that can run non-OEM firmware. Just for the record, my issues with Fusion and bridged networking are not exclusive to the WRT54G -- they extend to every AP I have connected to, including enterprise-grade products from Cisco and 3Com. In fact, I cannot recall any AP that I have connected to that I haven't experienced these issues with.

Re: Please review if you are having bridged wireless network issues

wdeboer — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 22:24:36 GMT

Please note that the WRT54G isn't very well supported under MacOSX. Half the time you can't connect to those damn things. Stupid wireless router thingy. Even without VMWare Fusion installed, we had to buy a different wireless router so my Apple computers could connect to the wireless network at home.