Any experience of Virtualbox hanging the LAN?

[sdavmor]

sdavmor wrote:
> I have upgraded to vbox 3.0.0 on Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04.  I am running 
> Windows XP svc pk 3 in the virtual.  My vbox networking has been NAT 
> on "adapter 1" using the PCnet-FAST III.  There used to be no issue 
> with this (other than speed).  But now as soon as the virtual WinXP 
> gets to the login point I lose my networking.  In addition within 
> seconds I'll hear from my family "what happened to the internet" as 
> they appear to lose there's as well.
> 
> My question is has anyone else experienced this?  If so what did you 
> do about it?  Right now I am working from the premise that something 
> is munging the hand-off between the virtual NIC and the real NIC on my 
> motherboard.  And that it in turn is overloading the router so it 
> can't process either inbound or outbound traffic properly.
> 
> Would changing the type of interface help?  And if so what would be my 
> best bet?
> 
> I have an extra LAN card that I can put into a spare PCI slot.  If I 
> install it, once I have this correctly ID'd to *nix, how would I go 
> about declaring it to vbox?
> 
> I did downgrade back to vbox 2.2.4 but the problem seems to remain.
> 
> I changed the router with the problem occurring in the same way on the 
> new router.

I should add that as soon as I shut down the vbox XP I get my LAN card
back and my family get their connections back too a few seconds later.
Clearly because I've stopped bombing the router.
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