Re: Auto-update versus "going green"

[Jeff Kell <jeff-kell () UTC EDU>]

 On 10/8/2010 11:41 AM, Valdis Kletnieks wrote:
> This sounds like a job for 'wake-on-LAN' if your BIOS and network card support it.  Poke
> each machine at oh-dark-thirty, have it wake up, look for updates, and go back to sleep.

OK, that brings up another question...

I have run across some computers set for the power-down / wake-on-LAN, but the
"sleeping" state is characterized by the network card going into some half-baked 10Mbps
link state that some switches characterize by input errors, link flapping, and generally
throwing fits on the switchport.  [Some] Dells connected to ProCurves seem to have this
issue, as I recall.

Does that one sound familiar, and any solutions/workarounds to that?

Jeff