I ran into this because I went to a hotel that had DHCP renew every 300 seconds, trying to download something inside the VM was getting clobbered... If you check your syslog or kern.log and see the following entries; then I might have the solution for you: kernel: [235397.022939] userif-3: sent link down event. kernel:… Continue reading VMWare Network Hickups ( sent link down event. )