From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 19 17:23:07 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFF2F16A47A for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 17:23:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FF5543D46 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 17:23:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k5JHLv42000314; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:22:17 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <4496DD2A.3020409@daleco.biz> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:21:46 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060509 SeaMonkey/1.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "M. Parsons" References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ed0 and xl0 watchdog/timeout errors 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: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 17:23:07 -0000 M. Parsons wrote: >> From /var/log/messages: > > Jun 19 10:43:35 freebsd kernel: ed0: device timeout > Jun 19 10:43:39 freebsd last message repeated 2 times > Jun 19 10:43:41 freebsd kernel: xl0: watchdog timeout > Jun 19 10:43:41 freebsd kernel: ed0: device timeout > Jun 19 10:43:41 freebsd kernel: xl0: link state changed to DOWN > Jun 19 10:43:43 freebsd kernel: ed0: device timeout > Jun 19 10:43:43 freebsd kernel: xl0: link state changed to UP > Jun 19 10:43:45 freebsd kernel: ed0: device timeout > Jun 19 10:43:48 freebsd kernel: xl0: watchdog timeout > Jun 19 10:43:48 freebsd kernel: ed0: device timeout > Jun 19 10:43:48 freebsd kernel: xl0: link state changed to DOWN > > dmesg says: (minus the mac addys which Ive removed) > > xl0: <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xec80-0xecff mem > 0xfebfff80-0xfebfffff irq 11 at device 11.0 on pci0 > miibus0: on xl0 > > ed0: port 0xef40-0xef5f irq 10 at device 12.0 on pci0 > ed0: type RTL8029 (16 bit) > > > ed0 is PCI card connected to a pppoe isp > > xl0 is PCI connected to another computer via crossover/natted > > The above happens if I use max upstream (60 KiloBytes/sec) on the pppoe > connection for a long amount of time (>6 hours). Otherwise, everything > works fine. > > Rebooting the machine is the only solution. Killing pppd and restarting > does not obtain an ip from the isp. And restarting xl0 also does not bring > back the lan connection. > > 6.0-Release is the version Im using. > > Any ideas? Besides not using any upstream. :) IANAE, but maybe the answer is to update? 6.0-RELEASE is pretty much officially *old*, ;-) and it's quite likely that the devices will work better with the newer driver code. IIRC, there were lots of messages with such issues "back in the day", and I don't see as many anymore --- this one notwithstanding, of course. Otherwise, I've no clue. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- Q: What is orange and goes click, click? A: A ball point carrot.