[SunHELP] loosing the connection

[Mike Meredith]

Hi

On Wed, 07 Feb 2001, you wrote:
>      I have a sun box on a "203.x.x.x" network, which is carrying a
> live site. And i'm on my "192.x.x.x" local network. My sun
> box(203.x.x.x) has proper subnet and gateway entries. Sometimes all
> of a sudden i won't be able to connect to my sun box, (i won't be

I did have something similar with a Sun server that was very idle most 
of the time. It appeared that the router would time-out the arp cache 
and I couldn't connect after that happened (I can't remember the full 
details).

A quick fix was to ping the machine every 5 minutes.