Re: NetBSD on Dell Latitude E5510 or E6510 or Precision M4500

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

    Date:        Fri, 4 Mar 2011 15:34:31 +0100
    From:        hans dinsen-hansen <hansdinsenhansen%gmail.com@localhost>
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  | Thus I wrote a little keepalive daemon which sends one single ping to
  | my nameserver every 60 seconds.

That's a different kind of problem, and very likely is related to the
NAT table timeout in the router.   With the wpi / wpa_supplicant problems,
the whole network just vanishes (that is, wpa_supplicant disconnects),
sending pings (or attempting to) is no help at all.

For systems where continuous access through a cheap NAT is required,
keeping some kind of traffic flowing can be a good way to keep the connection
functional.

kre