> -----Original Message----- > From: Hans-Werner Hilse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2006 11:27 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] My Snort server -- I Don't know > whats wrong -- It seems to go to sleep > > Hi, > > On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:32:10 -0500 > "Timothy A. Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The short summary is the box > > keeps "going to sleep" on me. It wont respond to ssh or webpage > > requests till I ping it about 10 times after that it works normally. > > First: I assume you've checked all cables and tried to > exchange them against some that are known working? Maybe even > tried another port on the switch for the administrative interface? > > Then it sounds like an ARP problem to me. I'd start with > running tcpdump on the administrative interface in order to > see what that machine's seeing, and when. My blind guess > would be that something irritates the routing, hence my guess > that ARP's a bit broken. The routing table entry would time > out and the machine you're using to connect to the admin > interface needs some time to get a proper ARP answer. Is that > snort machine's kernel somehow patched w/ regard to > ARP/Routing? Did you configure ARP via sysctl to non-default values? > You can check that suggestion by setting a routing table > entry for the target machine manually on your SSH client > machine ("arp -s"). > > -hwh > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > Hans: Thanks for the suggestions, It turned out that the problem was that the processor was entering a low power state after a period of time and needed to be woken up again -- adding no-hld to the kernel line in grub.conf solved the problem completely Thanks again TIM Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... Jeremiah 33:3 Jeremiah 29:11 Esther 4:14 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
