I noticed that on our virtual environments (VMware ESX) based on GNU/Linux (mostly Debian or Ubuntu distros ) the vmxnet modul is not used or not correctly loaded. Because of lsmod shows also a loaded pcnet32 module which uses mii.
I added follwing script snippet to the /etc/init.d/open-vm-tools
This addon to the startup script removes the pcnet32 and vmxnet32 modules and loads explicit vmxnet.
Take care if you get an symbol not found error while loading the vmghfs module. If so you have to uncomment the loading of this module.
Have fun.
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