Re: Periodic network outage

[Xander Soldaat <xander@soldaat.com>]

Hi there,

I had a similar problem with a Fujitsu Siemens machine that I was 
running OpenBSD on. The problem was that power management was enabled 
in the BIOS which caused the machine to go to sleep. Did you disable 
any and all power management in the BIOS?
Maybe you can try to boot up and disabling apm in the kernel as well, 
using the kernel config prompt (boot with 'boot -c' and type 'disable 
apm'). It might do the trick for you.

Good luck,
Xander

On Wednesday 24 July 2002 01:18, Tom Butcher wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Forgive me if this has been covered before; I'm new to the
> list.
>
> I'm having problems with my OpenBSD 3.0 machine that are
> very strange.  It seems that every one and a while (perhaps
> daily), my machine does not respond to or generate any
> network activity for hours at a time.  I've traced the
> problem to the machine itself, as I can ping other machines
> on my subnet as well as my gateway.  However, the OpenBSD
> machine simply doesn't respond.  After a few hours, it'll
> mysteriously be back in action, with nothing showing in the
> logs to give me any hints.  I can reboot the machine while
> it's not responding, and of course everything works fine
> again once it's back up.


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