[Bug 332114] [NEW] 9.04 - vmware player - some host network settings broken in certain circumstances

[ray.voelker]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: vmware-player

There appears to be a problem when setting up a new install of vmware
player (installed from the .bundle on vmware's website ... VMware-
Player-2.5.1-126130.i386.bundle) on Ubuntu 9.04. (Description:  Ubuntu
jaunty (development branch) Release:     9.04)

When running a wired network connection, everything installs correctly,
and networking works fine.

When a wireless network connection is used on the host (or maybe even a
second wired connection on the host, I don't have that sort of setup on
my host machine, so I don't know), the route information is not set up
correctly, or it doesn't preserve the proper "route" information that
existed previously.

Here's an example from my install ...
Before I install vmware-player here's what I get from 'sudo route -e'
Destination       Gateway           Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
131.238.204.0   *                       255.255.252.0  U          0      0             0   wlan0
link-local           *                       255.255.0.0      U          0      0             0   wlan0
default              131.238.204.1  0.0.0.0              UG        0      0             0   wlan0

After I install vmware-player here's my output from 'sudo route -e'
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
172.16.210.0    *                     255.255.255.0  U         0      0            0    vmnet1
192.168.0.0      *                     255.255.255.0  U         0      0            0    vmnet8
131.238.204.0  *                     255.255.252.0  U         0      0            0    wlan0 
link-local          *                     255.255.0.0      U         0      0            0    wlan0
default             192.168.0.2    0.0.0.0              UG       0      0            0    vmnet8


I "fixed it" by adding back my route (although, I don't think I did it properly) by doing the following ...
$ sudo route add 131.238.204.1 wlan0
$ sudo route add 131.238.204.1 default gw

my "working" route looks something like this now ... (although it takes a while to generate, and the network seems slower now)
Destination     Gateway         Genmask                Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
131.238.204.1   *                      255.255.255.255  UH        0     0             0    wlan0
172.16.210.0     *                      255.255.255.0      U          0     0             0    vmnet1
192.168.0.0       *                      255.255.255.0      U          0     0             0    vmnet8
131.238.204.0   *                      255.255.252.0      U          0     0             0    wlan0
link-local           *                      255.255.0.0          U          0     0             0    wlan0
default              131.238.204.1  0.0.0.0                 UG        0     0             0    wlan0


that got me back to a state similar to what I was using previously... 

Does anybody know if there is there a more elegant way to automagically
set up your default route again, without having to know what the
previous settings were?

Maybe there's an error in the way the vmware player sets up it's
networking upon install.

** Affects: vmware-player (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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