Links for February 5, 2009:
Eavesdrop your VI-Client traffic – NTPRO.NL – Mentions a new verbose logging option which enables you to intercept the soap traffic between you VI-Client and the vCenter server.
VMware KnowledgeBase Article – ESX Server host or virtual machines have intermittent or no network connectivity – "This article provides a series of steps [...]
Use tcpdump and the pflog0 device to view packets in real time:
# tcpdump -n -e -ttt -i pflog0
To examine the log file, do the following instead:
# tcpdump -n -e -ttt -r /var/log/pflog
See PF: Logging for more information.
Microsoft bundles the User State Migration Tool (USMT) with Windows to facilitate moving a user’s settings from one machine to another. When the USMT is enabled, it generates a notable amount of broadcast traffic – two to three packets per second – on UDP port 8 from the new system to 255.255.255.255, port 8:
0000 ff [...]