I think you migh have hit it. Because when I boot
under NT the problem goes away. Could you please tell
me how to work around this. And perhapse if you can
point me to some doc about this feature.
Thanks alot.
--- Civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
>
>
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