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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