network card going to sleep????

[Rich3800]

tholmes at mcaschool.net wrote:

>>>Hi Folks:
>>>
>>>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
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>TIM
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>if you can ping the NIC I'd assume its fine.  During the times when it
>>fails are you getting no response or a host unreachable error of some
>>kind?  What happens when you type:
>>
>>netcat remote.host-that.is.failing.com 22
>>
>>Its possible the hard drive is going to sleep and it is taking a while
>>to spin back up.  What steps do you take to make it come back up?
>>    
>>
>Does
>  
>
>>it stay down until you reboot the box?
>>
>>  -Mike
>>
>>
>>    
>>
>[Timothy A. Holmes] 
>
>Hi Mike:
>
>When it fails to respond it is only failing to do so on SSH (From PUTTY)
>and HTTPS (From firefox or IE). 
>
>I feel like a bit of an idiot, but neither my Fedora boxes or my windows
>stations responded to the netcat command -- they all said they did not
>recognize the command -- so I cant answer that part
>
>I don't think the hdd is spinning down, as it continues to sniff on the
>sniffer port, and once its pinged it comes up -- occasionally it takes 2
>ping sequences from windows to come up, but I have never had it fail to
>come up
>
>When it is uncontactable, it appears to be carrying on normally, as
>there is no gap in the snort records in the db
>
>To make it come back up, all I do is hit it with a Ping command from my
>windows workstation.
>
>Thanks
>
>TIM
>  
>
Try checking the BIOS settings.
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