Link down on RedHat Linux 3

On RedHat Enterprise 3 Linux on VMWare each interface link is always down.

The following needs to be added to all the ifcfg-eth in /etc/sysconfig/networking-scripts/

check_link_down() {
return 1;
}

See http://www.vmware.com/support/guestnotes/doc/guestos_redhat90.html for more information.