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**Fix slow pings on VM Hosts ESXi**

Sometime you can notice a strange phenomena on DEBIAN Hosts and that is when you ping a external site it takes between 10 and 20 seconds before a ping command returns. I have noticed this on servers system across various versions of ESXi. 

I found a simple fix for this. Just set the network card on DHCP and then return to your static address. 

For this to work do the following

  nano /etc/network/interfaces

search for the entry that says static and change it to dhcp. Note the interface name because you need it!
Save and close the change. 

NOTE: There is no need to comment out the static settings! Just change static to dhcp nothing more. 

Next, you have to stop and start your interface.

  ifdown ens192

ENS192 could something else in you configuration. So make a note when you edit your interface file. 

  ifup ens192

Ping any address and see if this is faster now. Go back to the interface file and edit it back to static.

  nano /etc/network/interfaces

Change the static setting to dhcp and save the file again. Then restart the interface again

  ifdown ens192

  ifup ens192

Do a ping and check if its solved. 


That's all!




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