From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 22 13:46:52 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DF6B16A41B for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:46:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from J.Catrysse@proximedia.be) Received: from smtp.proximedia.com (popop.online.be [194.88.108.79]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B79B213C4CC for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:46:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from J.Catrysse@proximedia.be) Received: from MAILDC.office.proximedia.be (unknown [194.88.104.249]) by smtp.proximedia.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1831287FA for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:14:08 +0100 (CET) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:17:48 +0100 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: +bfe0: watchdog timeout -- resetting Thread-Index: AcgtChO0Y5QRfptpSsivdqAHTZBcUw== From: "Jan Catrysse" To: Subject: +bfe0: watchdog timeout -- resetting X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:46:52 -0000 Dear subscribers, I am currently running a production gateway: FreeBSD 6.2 STABLE Onboard Broadcom BCM4401 Fast Ethernet (bfe0) 3 x PCI intel Gigabit Lan (em0, em1, em2) This machine is my firewall/gateway running PF. In my /var/log/messages I found: Nov 20 10:22:42 techdesk kernel: bfe0: watchdog timeout -- resetting Nov 20 10:22:42 techdesk kernel: bfe0: link state changed to DOWN Nov 20 10:22:44 techdesk kernel: bfe0: link state changed to UP It seems to happen every day or two and from time to time twice a day. The bfe0 is my external interface connected to the internet (6Mb/s). I don't have any free PCI slots to put in another card for testing; furthermore I don't really like putting down the server for too long either. The system is mainly running: pf (no queuing / no balancing / no red / ... ) isc-dhcpd (a small number of internal requests) named (a small number of internal requests) ftp-proxy pftpx I don't think the external connection has to suffer from heavy loads, it only accepts 6Mb/s max. Behind the gateway the only heavy incoming traffic is for the FTP server. Only a bunch of simultaneous connections but at high speed... To be frank the CPU and Memory are idle most of the time ;-) . Someone has a clew on what this could be or how to do further diagnostics? Kind regards, Jan Catrysse