The A6 that I have mining here shows the pool dead occasionally, and won't reconnect to it unless I restart cgminer. It stays on the failover pool. Anyone have any idea why?
That I don't know... I have 8xA6 pointed here and they reconnect and stay connected without issue. For example, the last time they failed over to my backup pool was on Monday when I shut down the stratum servers because my datacenter had the switch issue. When I fired them back up, all of my A6 came right back.
When was the last time your A6 showed the pool as dead and didn't fail back over properly? Are you on the latest firmware?
The failover are at expected times, it doesn't lose connection. It just does not come back when the pool comes back online.
I'll check the firmware, but it has never been a problem before. It is not really a big deal, but it is just strange. I just need to keep an eye on it a make sure it is working where it is supposed to.