Hi,
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:32:10 -0500
"Timothy A. Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
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