3c905B-TX Goes To Sleep

[Rich Schaaf]

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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