From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GjIEg-0005if-0Q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 16:31:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kACGSCkb006524; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 16:28:14 GMT Received: from srvexch-01.mcaschool.local (mail.mcaschool.net [24.239.210.32]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kACGOBSV003608 for ; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 16:24:12 GMT X-Ninja-PIM: Scanned by Ninja X-Ninja-AttachmentFiltering: (no action) Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] My Snort server -- I Don't know whats wrong -- It seems to go to sleep X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 11:24:05 -0500 Message-ID: <17CD9CE4C0FA574A8B29EF02D49B385D2A95B2@srvexch-01.mcaschool.local> In-Reply-To: <20061111172642.37c9c813.hilse@web.de> Thread-Topic: [gentoo-user] My Snort server -- I Don't know whats wrong -- It seems to go to sleep Thread-Index: AccFrcWDwPZoTbvySv2VbovrCWKToAAyQETQ From: "Timothy A. Holmes" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id kACGOBSV003608 X-Archives-Salt: 3a23ae9b-9413-48a0-ae6c-0e2a40fc8973 X-Archives-Hash: 187aa273b487d99cc9b316151cf5d8e0 > -----Original Message----- > From: Hans-Werner Hilse [mailto:hilse@web.de] > Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2006 11:27 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] My Snort server -- I Don't know > whats wrong -- It seems to go to sleep > > Hi, > > On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:32:10 -0500 > "Timothy A. Holmes" wrote: > > > The short summary is the box > > keeps "going to sleep" on me. It wont respond to ssh or webpage > > requests till I ping it about 10 times after that it works normally. > > First: I assume you've checked all cables and tried to > exchange them against some that are known working? Maybe even > tried another port on the switch for the administrative interface? > > Then it sounds like an ARP problem to me. I'd start with > running tcpdump on the administrative interface in order to > see what that machine's seeing, and when. My blind guess > would be that something irritates the routing, hence my guess > that ARP's a bit broken. The routing table entry would time > out and the machine you're using to connect to the admin > interface needs some time to get a proper ARP answer. Is that > snort machine's kernel somehow patched w/ regard to > ARP/Routing? Did you configure ARP via sysctl to non-default values? > You can check that suggestion by setting a routing table > entry for the target machine manually on your SSH client > machine ("arp -s"). > > -hwh > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > Hans: Thanks for the suggestions, It turned out that the problem was that the processor was entering a low power state after a period of time and needed to be woken up again -- adding no-hld to the kernel line in grub.conf solved the problem completely Thanks again TIM Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... Jeremiah 33:3 Jeremiah 29:11 Esther 4:14 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list