AS T wrote:
> I have the following problem on my linux gateway
> machine (at my home).
> The machine has two NIC cards. Eth0 is DHCP via adsl.
> Eth1 has static ip for my internal network. IP_MASQ
> is on to forward packets from my internal network.
> Everything works nicely, except that if I went to work
> and tried to ping my home (gateway) machine I notice
> that the ping does not "always" respond.
> I tried to track this and found out that eth0 seems to
> "fall a sleep" once in a while.
> However, my internal network has never had any problem
> getting out. All I can say is that once eth0 falls a
> sleep I would have to try later and it will somehow
> wake up by itself (no reboot or anything is required
> to get to work again, just waiting about 10-30
> minutes). APM is turned off on the BIOS and the OS.
> The only way I was able to remedy this is to have the
> gateway machine ping an external site (ex.
> www.yahoo.com)
> every 1 minute. With the ping on, I can alawys get to
> my gateway machine from work. I have few peopel on
> the web that have the same problem and none could
> figure out what the story is.
> Any help is highly appreciated.
> Thansk
>
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You might want to check your ISP and see if they have a
NetBios provision installed to "prevent IP spoofing".
If so you can expect to have a sleepy network unless you are
running windows.
Civileme
