Hi all,
I know this setup is unsupported technically but I thought I would ask the question anyway seeing as there seem to be quite a few helpful Mac folks on here 
Basically at random the NIC seems to stop responding and then according to the my vmkernel.log goes into a "resetting...." state.
Soon after things normally come back to life after a couple of minutes but I would love to get to the bottom of why its happening.
Im currently running the latest version of ESXi 5.1 (1117900) with the latest net-tg3 driver version 3.131d.v50.1-1OEM.500.0.0.472560 and can post logs if needs be.
Thanks for reading!