network dropouts (3090)

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nbirnbaum

Junior Member
Hey all,

Completely bizarre behavior. The workstation is an Intel iMac running 10.4.8 and Parallels 3090 with Windows XP. Symptoms: in almost every conceivable Parallels network configuration, the virtual machine will spontaneously lose its TCP/IP connection after being connected for 1-3 days without problems. The only way to get the connection back is to change the Parallels network settings. I've tried:

Bridged networking with the default adapter
Bridged networking with the Ethernet adapter selected
Bridged networking with the Airport adapter selected (while Mac OS X continues to use Ethernet)
Host-only with Internet Sharing enabled
Shared networking

Help!!

Thanks,
noam:eek:
 
Did you mean 3036 beta or 3094?

Please verify the limitation on connection time of your network and other its settings.
 
Can you clarify what you mean by "verify the limitation on connection time of your network and other its settings"?
 
Update (and bump): the machine seems to be working stably with the Mac environment networking via Ethernet, but Parallels doing Bridged Networking with en1 (Airport) selected as the adapter.

This is not ideal, however, since obviously wireless is slower. However, before I begin experimenting again with other ways of getting Parallels to work via Ethernet, I would like to have an idea of what to check in case it fails again.

Can you please help?
 
You seem to have gotten further than I have. could you give me a little more detail on how you got the wireless network to work? I want to run the internet inside of windows. thank you!
 
Shut down Windows.

Make sure your Mac has a working wifi connection.

Go to the virtual machine preferences.

Set networking to Bridged, and changed the adapter from the Default Adapter to whichever is your Airport interface (probably en1).

That's what worked for me. In this scenario the Windows virtual machine doesn't actually realize it's interacting with a wifi network -- Parallels just passes the network traffic between Windows and the Mac's wireless connection, which middle-man Windows doesn't need to know or care about.
 
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