[NTLUG:Discuss] Is there a such 'low power standby' phenomenons?

[MadHat]

At 03:51 PM 1/10/2002 +0000, m m wrote:
>Hi all:
>
>Is there a such 'low power standby'  phenomenons?
>what happpen to my box is that If I let the box idle for a while,
>then nobody can conncet to my server, even ping the box,
>the server is kind of 'dead'.
>but if I physically go back to 'use' the box (any kind of use, edit a file,
>telnet to some where...), the server become alive, all the servers
>works fine.
>I am think the NIC is bad, the something wrong on firewall rules,
>or the kernel is not stable (just upgrated the kernel to 2.4.14).
>If one of them cause the problem, then the problem should happen
>any time, even that I am 'using' the box.
>
>and idea?

Check your BIOS for powersave modes and disable them.  They can shutdown 
monitors, harddrives and NICs (if onboard) to conserve on power if idle for 
X minutes.  at least that is what it sounds like.
Some NICs also have built in BIOS that you can get to on boot (often 
something loike a SCSI where a message is displayed to hit CTRL-S to setup, 
common on Inter NICs), might want to check there as well.

>Thanks.
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