I checked my BIOS, and did have power management turned on. Chnaged this, and rebooted. Made no difference to the connectivity issue. :-(
My kernel doesn't have APM or APIC compiled into it (but I'll be checking tonight to be 100% sure I didn't accidently reset them). APIC seems to be a known issue when it comes to networking (automatic interrupt assignment at the kernel level). So, I'm still stumped. Is there anything else I can check? Would it help if I post my config files? Shawn -----Original Message----- From: Michael Petch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 12:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Gentoo connectivity issues I don't use gentoo but I had a similar experience with Redhat a couple years ago with a motherboard I purchased. The m/b in question had one of these built in ethernet ports. In my case it was about 5 mins of inactivity and the network card would just seem to stop working. I learned that the power management on the m/b was causing the ethernet card to go into a state that the linux kernel didn't like. I turned the power management off for the built in ethernet and everythign was fine. Just an idea. -- Mike Petch CApp::Sysware Consulting Ltd. Suite 1002,1140-15th Ave SW. Calgary, Alberta, Canada. T2R 1K6. (403)804-5700. On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 00:02, Shawn wrote: > I've tracked down the main problem with my server, but am not sure how to > resolve it. > > Specifically, my server will loose it's connection to the internet. It is > only the server that looses it's connection. My workstation and firewall > both perform fine. (standard network design here - IPCop firewall, with a > server and workstation on the internal network, with static IPs). What I > have found is that when my server is in this state, I can ping local > addresses no problem, and can even ping the external IP address of the > firewall. The moment I ping the outside address, everything works as it > should for a short while (minute or so). Then I loose the connection > (unless I have active traffic), and have to ping the external IP again. > > This appears to be a Gentoo specific issue for me. I say this because I > have installed RH, Suse, and Mandrake on the server over the past year, and > have never seen this problem. I have also tried to install Gentoo on my > workstation (using a spare drive), and run into the exact same connectivity > issues. > > I've checked the usual things. My route table looks correct, resolv.conf > works fine when I'm able to connect to the net, and I never have > connectivity issues from my workstation to the server. So, I think the > network config is fine, but obviously it's not. Does anyone have any ideas > what I've missed? Has anyone else seen this problem and resolved it? > > Thanks for any input. > > Shawn
