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Subject: bge watchdog timeout errors FreeBSD 7.3
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Hi,

   we are seeing these errors repeatedly on a new Dell R300 server:

Sep 23 15:06:29 vcomm kernel: bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
Sep 23 15:06:29 vcomm kernel: bge0: link state changed to DOWN
Sep 23 15:06:31 vcomm kernel: bge0: link state changed to UP

Server OS is:

FreeBSD vcomm 7.3-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE-p1 #0: Wed May 26  
04:29:05 UTC 2010      
root@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

We have so far, changed the cable, changed the network port, and  
lastly upgraded the server firmware (which included some update to the  
NIC). But the issue continues.

Info on the hardware from dmesg:

bge0: <Broadcom BCM5722 A0, ASIC rev. 0x00a200> mem  
0xdfdf0000-0xdfdfffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1
miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0

No shared interrupts:

# vmstat -i
interrupt                          total       rate
irq16: mpt0                     21776213         30
irq21: uhci0 uhci2+                  290          0
irq23: atapci0                        58          0
cpu0: timer                   1438708756       2006
irq256: bge0                    50544776         70
cpu1: timer                   1438700714       2006
Total                         2949730807       4113

Network switch is Cisco, I can get the exact model if required.
Is this a bug, hardware issue? Should I be worried?

thanks Andy.