On 0, Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> wrote: > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 02:07:08PM -0400, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote: > > One of my computer has this (annoying) feature that it will turn the > > nic off if being idle for couple hours. The only way to restart is to > > physically hit the keyboard. So I am thinking that a little small > > ping script that pings this machine every 30 minutes will help cure > > the problem. Can someone give me such script ? Thanks > > Why not do the correct fix and shut off auto-suspend/auto-shutdown in > your BIOS? <rant> Ah! At last someone has thought about the problem! What is the point of pinging a machine to keep its nic alive when you can tell it not to shut the nic down in the first place? On ya, Paul. </rant> Tom --
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