From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 23 07:41:31 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 70FB816A468 for ; Fri, 23 Nov 2007 07:41:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.179]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 287DE13C478 for ; Fri, 23 Nov 2007 07:41:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u77so8906802pyb for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:41:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=SGuBqneRibrOW1tHal4T4w6XDYngQWxmgR/PgFUCxK8=; b=H3GTDAJuzfQFuwqEPJ6VnsUVH+llSAqU5wUVBY88dYpQLzKzSLe4deQQKjwepM8/FJVCWj4DbBIigCYs4qN1DSODuYufcp0Eclymaa+DmD9lLnk3+P8cHh61Lr2SW7uUFk1GNiRhSAkpbfPhbyJSFzJM5u910kZ2n+iIdRXRKks= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Kip3N3y+NrAIHo2aYc+JCn8JRpD4mcdn0ci0gSWhNRAVZ0amLaGc3v/F8uqYCuPdFyWWoucDZcbUnLYhxgBWTDSzbjbeVYXr3UWZkc46cCy/cTCE2AKpKv706bgBNf+NQMLJTTk2potG8AVM5xbBCEio2j/RNqVZ2QJtSegbaL0= Received: by 10.64.242.5 with SMTP id p5mr21395437qbh.1195803690140; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:41:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.105.5 with HTTP; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:41:30 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 02:41:30 -0500 From: "Aryeh Friedman" To: "Michael Hawkins" In-Reply-To: <9a7bbc700711222112p4ada079j6ea2effc32e45e56@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <9a7bbc700711222112p4ada079j6ea2effc32e45e56@mail.gmail.com> Cc: Jan Catrysse , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: +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: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 07:41:31 -0000 On 11/23/07, Michael Hawkins wrote: > I have been receiving the same error message from my NAS box as of late. > > Until last week, I was been running Freebsd6.2, and I occassionally > received the message "re0: watchdog timeout". It would happen about > once a week. Last week, I installed freenas (which is based on > freebsd6.2), and now I receive the same error with more regularity. > My NIC is a Netgear 3a11. > > I seem to be getting the error message most when attempting to > transfer a large number of files onto the server. > > Any help would be welcome. Thanks, > 1. 6.2 is not very friendlyt towards re(4) consider 6.2 or 7 2. While still using 6.2 do the following right after a reboot: ifconfig re0 -txcsum -rxcsum This tells the OS not the hardware to do the checksum on packets. Also you should do a search for re(4) problems in -current to get a better understanding of the issue.