Flaky network on FreeBSD 6.2 under VMware

I like VMware. I use it to run a FreeBSD virtual machine, where I do all of my development. This works swimmingly at home, but here at work I've been seeing a flaky network connection between my host OS and the FreeBSD guest. The result is that I edit a file and refresh the browser, only to get a "The connection was rest" error in Firefox. ACK. What a buzz-kill!

Thankfully, the VMware forums are lively and helpful. I find plain-text mail archives to be cleaner, but whatever: I think I got my answer (good background).

Update: With further assistance, I installed VMware tools after all, and am now using the provided vmxnet driver.

Overall, this was a really positive experience with the VMware community. Looks to me like VMware nails the business/FOSS mix.

Update Update: ACK. Problem persists, though less frequently? Workaround is `cd /etc/rc.d/ && ./netif restart && ./routing restart` in the VMware console window. Feed back to Chad Whitacre.