Re: VMware + Monowall = FTP not working

Manuel Kasper <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.firewalls.m0n0wall
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 06.02.2012, at 20:54, Joe Cavaliere wrote:

> I have executed the 2 commands by visiting /exec.php page and executed both commands
> 
> ifconfig em0 -rxcsum -txcsum
> ifconfig em1 -rxcsum -txcsum
> 
> When I try to FTP to a server, the Monowall console shows:
> in_cksum_skip: out of data by 20

Interesting... That does seem to indicate that the problem is checksumming-related.

> connecting to FTP still not working on VMWARE .
> *Note that my LAN and WAN use lnc0 & lnc1 

I'd strongly suggest changing your .vmx file to switch all four virtual NICs to e1000. The lnc driver is hopelessly outdated and has bad performance (and perhaps bugs too...).

See here: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1003020

- Manuel
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