Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:08:57 +0200 From: "Daniel A." <alive@dienub.org> To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Good network card? Message-ID: <44EB4839.8050304@dienub.org>
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Hi, I am currently having a big deal of issues with the ethernet cards on my server, as well as a possible motherboard problem. This causes my server to reboot occasionally, but never in a predictable pattern. A while back, the reboots only occured once every two weeks - But now they're almost every other hour. I cant take it anymore. So, do you know if the "watchdog timeout"s caused by bad network cards can cause a complete system crash/lockup/reboot? If yes, shouldn't a kernel core be dumped? And if no kernel is dumped, does it mean that the issue is potentially with my IDE controller or harddrive? I noticed that, at a point where I had no internet connection (And hence, my server was not used - but still turned on), the server stayed up for 20 days straight without any issues at all - So my #1 suspicion right now is my network cards. sis0 (onboard ethernet, 100mbit) and rl0 (PCI card) in my server right now are constantly having issues with their watchdog timeouts. Considering that I am quite poor - What PCI ethernet cards should I buy for my server? And could you suggest a cheap motherboard which isn't bad too? In advance, thanks a lot.
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