From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 28 17:15:34 2002 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 8882C37B400 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 17:15:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail1.rolet.com (mail1.rolet.com [208.29.194.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1F1443E42 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 17:15:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rcovell@rolet.com) Received: from devh (mkc-65-26-14-45.kc.rr.com [65.26.14.45]) (authenticated) by mail1.rolet.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g7T0Jo441504; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 19:19:51 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <008101c24ef1$922b6ec0$6401a8c0@kc.rr.com> From: "Robert Covell" To: "O'Shaughnessy Evans" , References: <20020828225911.GC27455@aloha.net> Subject: Re: watchdog timeout on Broadcom Gigabit NICs Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 19:18:10 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Might sound like a question that is not relavant, but is your Dell PowerEdge 2650 a dual processor? I know this is coming from a completely different os, but I had the exact same thing from a Linux box that was on a newer kernel. The "watchdog timeout -- resetting" message was all over the logs. The server was still up and running but could not get out to the Internet so it looked down. My fix was to patch the kernel to properly support the dually's with code from a 3rd party with the same probs. This probably is not the problem, but thought I would give you another way to look at it. If your server is a dually, try to disable one of the cpu's and let er run... Sincerely, Robert T. Covell President / Owner Rolet Internet Services, LLC Web: www.rolet.com Email: rcovell@rolet.com Phone: 816.471.1095 Fax: 816.471.3447 24x7: 816.210.7145 ----- Original Message ----- From: "O'Shaughnessy Evans" To: Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 5:59 PM Subject: watchdog timeout on Broadcom Gigabit NICs > Hello. I've recently installed FreeBSD 4.6.2 on a Dell PowerEdge 2650, > and I'm running into a problem that I haven't been able to solve. > One of my interfaces is regularly hanging up. It's a 2-port Broadcom > Gigabit Ethernet card using the bge driver. I see this on console every > time it locks up: > > bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting > > As far as I can tell, the cabling is good. Hardware diagnostics didn't > reveal any problems. The man page for bge doesn't say much about what > could cause this, but I'm fairly sure the NIC works when other operating > systems run on the box, so I doubt it's a hardware issue. Does anyone > have suggestions on what else I can try to get rid of the timeouts? > > Thanks. > > -- > = o'shaughnessy evans = = unix sys admin @ aloha.net = > Smash forehead on keyboard to continue ... > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message