Date: 13 Jul 2003 10:14:31 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: Jorge Biquez <jbiquez@icsmx.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: WhatchDog Error on a Lan Card. Message-ID: <44el0utsxk.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20030711201531.02194450@mail.icsmx.com> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20030711201531.02194450@mail.icsmx.com>
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Jorge Biquez <jbiquez@icsmx.com> writes: > Today I started receiving this error on the lan card. > > r10: WATCHDOG TIMEOUT The log message is reporting that the card locked up. > And seems like the TCP/IP services stop passing thought the card. The > machine continues running without seeing the world but no other errors > beside the above on the console. One thing I notices is that if I try > to ping any machine I receive and "overflow error". If I restart the > machine everything works normally again. You could try bringing the interface down and back up. > The machine is running 4.8 Stable, running on a PIII - 1.0 Ghz with > 512 RAM and more than enough free space. The machine is running only > Apache with some load. > > I changed the card with another of the same brand and type, its backup > since I always buy 2 same cards for each equipment, just in > case. After a few hours and under some load the machine send the same > error. If you're going to be careful enough to buy backup cards, it's worth spending the money to buy something less junky.
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