Michael Buesch <fsdeveloper@yahoo.de> wrote: > > I've a problem with my server/router, that I've seen on > various kernels. currently I'm running 2.4.21, but I've > seen the problem on 2.4.20 and 2.5.70, too. > I'm using a 3com 3c509 ISA ethernet card. > > When this server stays a longer time (about one night, 12 hours) > without network-traffic, it seems like the whole network-interface > falls into a very deep sleep. It's very hard to wake the machine > up. This could be a router problem: some routers (Cisco?) decide that a host has died if no traffic has been seen for a long time. Google for "vortex sleepy nic" for some discussion. I haven't seen any reports of this in a looong time. IIRC it was worked around by pinging some remote host once per minute. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
