debian man page for vmxnet

VMXNET(9)							   Open VM Tools							 VMXNET(9)

NAME
       vmxnet - vmware kernel module

SYNOPSIS
       modprobe vmxnet

DESCRIPTION
       This  is  a  Linux  kernel device driver module that drives VMware's fast networking device. As it is backed by real (virtual) hardware, it
       should be automatically loaded by hotplug or udev as needed. For best performance, it is recommended to enable TSO on all interfaces driven
       by vmxnet using ethtool.

       The shell code to do this might look like this:

       if which ethtool >/dev/null 2>&1; then
	  for ethif in `ifconfig -a | grep ^eth | cut -d' ' -f1`; do
	     ethtool -K $ethif tso on >/dev/null 2>&1
	  done fi

       The VMware backend may present the fast networking device as an AMD vlance device instead of the actual vmxnet device.

SEE ALSO
       vmware-checkvm(1)
       vmware-hgfsclient(1)
       vmware-toolbox(1)
       vmware-toolbox-cmd(1)
       vmware-user(1)
       vmware-xferlogs(1)
       libguestlib(3)
       libvmtools(3)
       vmware-guestd(8)
       vmware-hgfsmounter(8)
       vmware-user-suid-wrapper(8)
       vmblock(9)
       vmci(9)
       vmhgfs(9)
       vmmemctl(9)
       vmsock(9)
       vmsync(9)
       vmxnet3(9)

HOMEPAGE
       More information about vmxnet and the Open VM Tools can be found at <http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/>.

AUTHOR
       Open VM Tools were written by VMware, Inc. <http://www.vmware.com/>.

       This  manual  page  was	put  together from homepage materials by Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-technologies.net>, for the Debian
       project (but may be used by others).

2010.03.20-243334						    2010-04-08								 VMXNET(9)