Weird turnoff

[James B. Byrne]

We had a couple of servers assembled in-house from components which
exhibited this behaviour.  We eventually traced it back to a BIOS
setting that would power down the NIC after a significant period
without traffic.  Apparently this is a power saving feature of some
BIOS intended for use on mobile platforms.


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James B. Byrne                mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca
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