3c905B-TX Goes To Sleep

[Kevin Ford]

Just try the cron ping, maybe it requires a certain type of packet eg UDP to
wake up.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Andrew May [SMTP:acmay@ucsd.edu]
> Sent:	Tuesday, March 28, 2000 7:04 AM
> To:	Rich Schaaf
> Cc:	Matt Benjamin; linux-vortex@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov;
> kevin.ford@natpower.com
> Subject:	Re: 3c905B-TX Goes To Sleep
> 
> I am not sure if I have the same problem, but on my machine
> I have just about everything mounted over NFS. So usually there
> is traffic flowing, but a couple of times I have come back
> to the machine to see it with a load of 9 because the NFS mounts
> are gone.
> 
> I though it was a NFS problem but if it was the card that would
> almost be better news.
> 
> I will see if I can get the network to hang without the NFS mounts.
> 
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 06:47:42PM -0500, Rich Schaaf wrote:
> > Hi Matt,
> > 
> > I never did find a fix for this problem.  I ended up working around it
> > using a cron script that pings some other host on the network every five
> > minutes.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Rich 
> > 
> > Matt Benjamin wrote:
> > > 
> > > Vortex Folk,
> > > 
> > > I have a machine that displays the "going to sleep" behavior a
> > > couple of people have reported with 3c905B and 3c900 cards.
> > > 
> > > That is, the interface comes up and works correctly, but when the
> > > server is idle for 15 minutes or so, the machine ceases to respond
> > > to incoming connection requests.  A ping from the server machine
> > > to any other network address brings the interface "back up".
> > > 
> > > Has anyone successfully resolved a similar sounding problem?  Did
> > > the original posters get any help?
> > > 
> > > Thanks very much,
> > > 
> > > Matt Benjamin
> > 
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