network card going to sleep????

[Tim]

On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 10:47 -0500, Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
> I have a bit of a curious problem here.  I have a Fedora Core 4 P4 HT
> box with a Intel Pro/1000 NIC in it that seems to go to sleep at
> random times.  If I try to SSH to it, or access the web site that it
> serves (it's a snort box and it serves BASE) I get no response, but if
> I ping it, I can get it.  I am beginning to wonder if FC4 has some new
> feature that is powering down or autosleeping the card or something.
> Can someone suggest a solution or at least where to look

I don't know about Fedora doing that itself (it doesn't with my network
cards).  But what about the motherboard BIOS?   It might have power
management features enabled.

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