From owner-freebsd-net Tue Jun 18 10:33:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.dcu.ie (mail.dcu.ie [136.206.1.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BEDC37B403 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 10:33:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from prodigy.redbrick.dcu.ie (136.206.15.10) by hawk.dcu.ie (6.0.040) id 3CC55D79001898E6 for freebsd-net@freebsd.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 18:33:07 +0100 Received: by prodigy.redbrick.dcu.ie (Postfix, from userid 2027) id 0B088DA4A; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 18:33:06 +0100 (IST) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 18:33:06 +0100 From: Colin Whittaker To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: bge driver issue Message-ID: <20020618183306.A1796@prodigy.Redbrick.DCU.IE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Organization: North East Technologies Ltd. X-subliminal-message: Give Colin all your money. Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have a dell poweredge 2550 with which I am having all sorts of nasty network problems. The network interface will just stop responding. I get an error message like this: Jun 18 08:19:38 shekondar /kernel: bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting This is using the broadcom 10/100/1000 NIC on the mother board, the intel 10/100 has had similar issues but produces no log messages. duplex and speed settings are forced on both the card and the switch. sometimes the kernel reset will clear the fault but sometimes you need to ifconfig down / up the interface to get it going again. This box has been running fine for several weeks, it is only as we have started to shift to production levels of traffic to it that it has started this. Approx 30M bits/sec out and 12M bits/sec inbound. There was a simple ipfw ruleset on the box but I have disable that just now to see if it helps. Googleing has given me people who report similar problems but no solutions / work arounds. Have anyone got any suggestions as to what to do next. Colin Here is the output of postconf bge0@pci1:8:0: class=0x020000 card=0x00d11028 chip=0x164414e4 rev=0x12 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' device = 'BCM5700/1 Gigabit Ethernet Controller' class = network subclass = ethernet -- "Design" is like a religion - too much of it makes you inflexibly and unpopular. Linus Torvalds To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message