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Date:      Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:10:07 +1000
From:      Andrew Snow <andrew@modulus.org>
To:        Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: watchdog timeout problem with freebsd 6.2-stable and v6.4.1 if_em driver
Message-ID:  <467F5C3F.8090908@modulus.org>
In-Reply-To: <2a41acea0706230041p54212458mdd2ab339fe9bffd9@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <467C8C5F.8050206@modulus.org> <2a41acea0706230041p54212458mdd2ab339fe9bffd9@mail.gmail.com>

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Jack Vogel wrote:
>> After medium-heavy traffic, the NIC locks up completely and no traffic
>> passes for a long time, perhaps longer than half an hour.
>>
>> Then, it recovers and prints this to syslog:
>> em0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
>> em0: link state changed to DOWN
>> em0: link state changed to UP
>>
> If you search thru the email archives you will find that
> I have posted a DOS patcher that fixes the problem.
> Search on 82573, if you have a problem let me know.


Thanks Jack, the patch fixed the problem for me.

I found it quite hard to find the patch to download, so I took the 
liberty of posting an article about it for posterity, including 
instructions and download link, I hope thats OK.

http://www.higherorder.com.au/2007/6/25/intel_82573_patch


- Andrew



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