Rich,
Or just doing a ping?
Regards
Gustav
Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, linda hanigan wrote:
>
> > I think the hub is shutting down the port after a long period of
> > inactivity.
>
> Linda,
>
> Isn't this interesting! Ever since I upgraded our small network (3
> workstations; 2 portables) to RH 6.1, I've experienced the same problem on
> one workstation: it will silently become catatonic overnight on an
> unpredictable schedule.
>
> It used to be every 2-3 nights. Then it went almost an entire week without
> locking. Yesterday morning it was gone again, about 10 days since the last
> event. I never thought of the hub; I assumed there was a problem with nfs --
> particularly knfsd -- that caused the problem. I have not checked the hub.
>
> I don't have a solution to your problem. If you learn of one, I'd like to
> read about it. But, you've made me think of an experiment to try. I'm going
> to develop a shell script which will exercise the network connection to that
> workstation via a cron job that runs, say, every 12 hours. It could be as
> simple as listing the contents for a couple of nfs-mounted directories on
> that box.
>
> Do you think that bits are collecting like dust in that hub port and
> blocking the life flow to that host?
>
> Rich
>
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