I don't believe BIOS is at fault. I could not find anything vaguely related in BIOS settings, plus, I booted machine with Knoppix boot cd and have been able to ping it for hours on end. Rather strange.
On 1/20/06, Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 05:41:11PM -0600, Igor Vilensky wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > This is my first post. Apologies if not everything is pro forma. > > > > I hope someone might help me with this issue. > > Ssh session and pinging 3.8 Generic running on Compaq Deskpro SB time > out > > after 800 to 2400 when not actively using the box. > > You get 'No route to Host' message in ping or ssh session freezes. > > The box is connected to 4 port Belkin KVM switch on video and keyboard, > > regular PS2 mouse is plugged in. > > Re-plugging mouse wakes up the session/ping and it works for a little > > while. Pressing keys on mouse makes no difference. > > Unplugging keyboard makes no difference, but connecting to Video and > > keyboard on KVM and hitting a key on a keyboard > > does wake up OpenBSD so that it responds again. > > Have you checked the BIOS for interesting options? This looks like the > BIOS shuts down the machine or some such. > > Joachim
