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I have 2 virtual machines running in 2 different environments, one is a windows xp box running VMware 5.5 and the other is a windows 2008 r2 server running VMware 4.1. like I said it runs in separate blade enclosures. These 2 machines are causing each a drop in each others network connections. When the one is up the other one is down and vice versa, you will get a reply from 1 and then the other 1 stops replying and then after 2 minutes or so the opposite happens.  There is no ip or name conflicts, there is no problem with the hosts it is running on or with the blade enclosures, please assist.

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is there an only network drop or totally shutdown  ?
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It is just a network drop
Do both the machines have multiple NIC cards? i have seen this happen in scenarios where the VM's had more than one NIC cards.
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Both of the machines have only one nic
You probably checked this already but...Are the MAC addresses on the VM's cards the same by any chance?
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I did not and yes they do
Then may be that's the cause. Change the MAC address and see if this issue is resolved.
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Thank you very much