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Subject: Re: watchdog question.
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On Tuesday 01 August 2006 20:39, Efren Bravo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've a freeBSD box and I've been seeing this
> message for several months: sis0 watchdog
> timeout.
>
> The box has two ethernet cards, sis0 (100mb) and
> vr0 (10mb).
>
> The messages isn't frequent but yesterday it got
> my attention. What does this mean?

from  sis(4)
     sis%d: watchdog timeout  The device has stopped responding to the net-
     work, or there is a problem with the network connection (e.g. a cable
     fault).