Er, from what perspective? -- Re: eepro 100 falling asleep?

Hannu Krosing hannu@tm.ee
Sun Apr 9 14:36:49 2000


Bryan -TheBS- Smith wrote:
> 
> Er, from what perspective? -- Re: eepro 100 falling asleep?
> 
> On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, Patrick Wagstrom wrote:
> > Do the eepro100 cards have a sleep feature on them?  I'm curious
> > because I've observed odd behavior with our servers here is the
> > situation.
> >
> > When our servers are getting relatively low amounts of traffic or none
> > at all for a period of several minutes, they will be inordanately slow
> > to respond to the first few pings, if it all.  After a few more seconds
> > they come alive and work fine.
> 
> Did you ping the DNS name or the IP address?
> 

I don't know what he did, but I have had cases where I _have_ to do an 
outward ping before eepro100 starts doing anything. 
Pinging it from outside does not wake it up.

I've had similar behaviour on at least two different computers with
eepro

And yes, I'v had it falling asleep. Currently I have a cronjob to keep
it 
alive by making an outward ping every few minutes.

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Hannu
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