VMWare Nics

RouterOS General
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I know its a long shot, but could the vmxnet driver be added to RouterOS? I guess the performance and CPU usage are much better when using the enhanced driver.

The one that is currently working in VMWare but not really optimized:

0 device="00:10.0" name="79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE] (rev: 16)" 
   vendor="Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]" category="Ethernet controller" 
   vendor-id="0x1022" device-id="0x2000" irq=9 io=0x1080-0x10FF

vmxnet driver source is at /usr/lib/vmware-tools/modules/source after installation of vmware tools. . .

Sam

2

If you can run 64bit VMs, you can use the virtual Intel PRO 1000, which seems to work quite well. Probably not as good as vmxnet, but it definately faster than than the virtual lance.

3

vmware server uses a virtual intel nic when 64 bit guest is used? I will try that out …

4

your right, if i delete all ethernet adapters, change to a 2.4 linux 64 bit OS guest, and add ethernet back I see an 82545EM NIC … cool, I’ll test that out and see how things work.

Sam