I am confused!

I have just built a new fileserver, installed Fedora Core 1 and set up nfs to share the disks with my other linux machines.

It seemed to go simply enough... but...

The fileserver now has a problem that it seems to sleep it's network connections after a period of inactivity, and these do not wake up again when required (i.e. I want my files!)

If I wander over to the console I can get everything coming back up to life by restarting network services. (Is this a red herring?)

I tried leaving a machine pinging the fileserver so that there is definite activity, but again after about 1/2 hour it goes back to sleep.

How do I get this machine to keep listening? I have turned off apmd.

Could this be hardware related? NIC? MB?


Thanks for any help!

A confused RedGremlin

Thanks to my brother-in-law for helping on this one...

It seems it is something to do with APM / ACPI

Anyway, switching off APM support in the motherboard, and doing apm=off and acpi=off for the kernel options seems to do the trick.

At least... my fileserver now doesn't go to sleep

How do you turn off the kernel options?

Thanks,

-Anthony