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Re: Re; [Xen-users] Ethernet has Alzheimers




Hi,

>This machine is currently getting very little traffic (because it is being set up). >After some time of no activity, it refuses to talk to me from home (ping, ssh, http, anything ..) >However, talking to it from another server on the local subnet works fine.

>A lot of debugging seems to indicate that the interface "forgets" it IP address after nobody talked to it for a while

Is the machine answering ARP replies?
Does the upstream router have the IP & MAC in its ARP table?
Does the upstream switch have the MAC in its mac-address-table? Assigned to the correct port?

Sounds to me like an ARP timeout problem.


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