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You show that you changed the speed to 100mbps, setting it to full duplex. &nbsp;Does the device you have this NIC plugged into support Full-duplex? &nbsp;Can you post the output from Ethtool? &nbsp;What distro of Linux are running as the Guest?
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You show that you changed the speed to 100mbps, setting it to full duplex.  Does the device you have this NIC plugged into support Full-duplex?  Can you post the output from Ethtool?  What distro of Linux are running as the Guest?

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Hi,<br />
i set up an ESX server and everything was just great till i went to the configuration and i changed the speed of the vmnic0 from 100 to 1000 mbps. Since then i cannot ping the server and when i run the ethtool but is shows on the vmnic0 that no light detected, When i physically check the server the light is on (on the nic card) but when the kernel loads the light goes off. <br />
I tried to change the speed manually via ethtool -s vmnic0 speed 100 duplex full <br />
but it did not do the trick..<br />
Any ideas ?
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Hi,
i set up an ESX server and everything was just great till i went to the configuration and i changed the speed of the vmnic0 from 100 to 1000 mbps. Since then i cannot ping the server and when i run the ethtool but is shows on the vmnic0 that no light detected, When i physically check the server the light is on (on the nic card) but when the kernel loads the light goes off. 
I tried to change the speed manually via ethtool -s vmnic0 speed 100 duplex full 
but it did not do the trick..
Any ideas ?

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