Hello,
I am hoping that someone can point me to a solution for a problem
I am having with a "Broadcom BCM5701 Gigabit Ethernet" card/driver.
I am using FreeBSD 4.6.2 on a Dell PowerEdge 2650 that has 2 of these
NIC's builtin. I have tried this on both NIC's and continue to get:
Sep 18 08:56:05 myhost /kernel: bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
Sep 18 08:58:00 myhost /kernel: bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
During the moments before the reset, all traffic stops flowing from the host
(the switch is still sending data). I have also changed cables and ports
on the switch. I have tried it with autoneg (both switch and host) and
hardwired to 100-full (both switch and host).
The problem seems to be intermittent (not repeatable on any
kind of predictable pattern). Traffic does begin to flow after the
"timeout -- resetting". The lags between problem and reset can be
up to 2 full minutes.
Version of if_bge.c:
$FreeBSD: src/sys/dev/bge/if_bge.c,v 1.3.2.14 2002/07/27 17:00:41 jdp Exp $
Version of if_bgereg.h:
$FreeBSD: src/sys/dev/bge/if_bgereg.h,v 1.1.2.5 2002/07/27 17:00:41 jdp Exp $
This file (if_bgereg.h) has been modified in the following way:
#define ETHER_ALIGN 0
I saw this change in the mailing list as a solution to get the card working.
(Otherwise it did not want to pass traffic for more than a few moments).
So, what might cause "bge_watchdog(ifp)" to be called?
Ted
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