Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:44:00 +0100 (CET) From: "P.U.Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> To: Luke Dean <LukeD@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel: rl0: watchdog timeout Message-ID: <20051123214108.B52779@www.pukruppa.net> In-Reply-To: <20051123003158.H1082@border.crystalsphere.multiverse> References: <20051123003158.H1082@border.crystalsphere.multiverse>
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On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Luke Dean wrote: > > Since I upgraded to version 6, my server has frozen under heavy network > traffic three times. It ran happily for months on various versions of 5. > Same hardware, same configuration. > There was never anything in /var/log/messages until this last time. This > time I found: > > kernel: rl0: watchdog timeout > > I don't know what it's trying to tell me, and I don't know if it's a cause or > an effect. > > This is 6.0-STABLE as of late Sunday night. i386. rl0 is my WAN-side > interface. vr0 is my internal interface. This machine runs DNS, email, web, > NFS host, and several other services. It uses pf with altq. I have seen this once about two years ago. It went away, after I changed the NIC (realtek aren't high quality anyway). Regards, Uli. > > I don't think the system is panicking. It doesn't reboot. It may be > freezing. It becomes unresponsive on both network interfaces. When the > incident occurs, there's always a lot of simple TCP/IP traffic that's just > passing through the box (not NFS, email, web, or anything the box provides on > its own) and my first response is to hit the reset button to get it going > again. > > What should I look for? > The handbook says to check cables, and they seem fine. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > ********************************************* * Peter Ulrich Kruppa - Wuppertal - Germany * *********************************************
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