[vortex] 3c905 sleep

[Andrew Morton]

Matthew Eaton wrote:
> 
> I've seen this in the list a couple times.
> 
> Has there been a fix to the problem where the 3c905 goes to sleep after
> being idle for about 15 min and taking a few pings to wake it up?
> 

Not that I'm aware of.  The theory is that the ethernet switch
expires its knowledge of the host and stops sending packets
to its MAC address.

I'm not sure why we only ever hear about this for the 3c59x series though.

Most people just have a cron job which goes "ping"!  (You _are_ a Monty
Python fan, I hope).