Hi! On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 06:52:51AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 03:25:55PM +0200, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 02:42:30PM +0200, Philippe Pegon wrote: > > > it's just a me too. On our ftp server (ftp8.fr.freebsd.org), sometimes > > > we see some "watchdog timeout" in the log with a bge card, but maybe it's > > > not the same problem... : > > > > As far as I know the watchdog timeouts are _supposed_ to be > > mostly harmless, i.e. recoverable. > > You'll still see impact -- that is, no packets flowing. The > reason things are recoverable is solely because of the retry > functionality for layer 2 packets...
You are, of course, right. What I meant is: these timeouts should not lead to freezing of all network communications for a couple of minutes like me and some other people seem to experience. TCP and most UDP based upper level protocols will recover gently from a lost packet or two. Regards, Patrick -- punkt.de GmbH Internet - Dienstleistungen - Beratung Vorholzstr. 25 Tel. 0721 9109 -0 Fax: -100 76137 Karlsruhe http://punkt.de _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
