-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 28 July 2003 22:07, Andrew Morton wrote: > 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 I've got no hardware-router. The server (the machine, that locks up; normal pentium linux PC) works as server and router for my other machines. > 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. I'm now trying it without APM, ACPI support in the kernel. If this doesn't work, I'll try to make a cron-job pinging some server. - -- Regards Michael Buesch http://www.8ung.at/tuxsoft Penguin on this machine: Linux 2.4.21 - i386 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/JYlvoxoigfggmSgRAv9PAJwK7b6vA3iYuzUMMtBlke8OjfCpLQCfXKcO 9w/oyKdCiF0Lydx57J88CwQ= =eeAh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - : 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
