Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:29:25 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: watchdog question. Message-ID: <44D09AA5.1000507@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <20060801200042.8af51559.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> References: <20060801193945.83338.qmail@web25219.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <200608020052.23836.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> <20060801200042.8af51559.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
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Bill Moran wrote: >RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> wrote: > > > >>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). >> >> > >I've seen this frequently with sis cards. My opinion is that all sis >cards are cheapo crap, and watchdog timer is a workaround to try to make >them work in spite of being crap. I've seen sis cards in Windows machines >and they perform lousy there as well. > > I always got these errors on sis cards too - always ignored then. Worked fine for me on a lightly loaded network. If you start getting real symptoms - card locking up for example - then you;ll have to get a better network card. But unless and until that happens I would ignore it. --Alex
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