Re: "watchdog timeout" on a network card?

[Tor Roberts <tor@econsci.net>]

Michael,
I had the same problem with some cheap Digital clones. I just replaced
them with Intel cards, and all my problems went away. Maybe someone has a
better solution, but I have found that if you use good network cards, you
don't have trouble.

-Tor

On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Michael R. Jinks wrote:

> Hi, all.  The only references I've been able to find about "watchdog"
> anything all pertain to the watchdog system monitoring cards, which I
> don't have.  But for some reason I keep getting this error on a box I'm
> setting up:
> 
> "Feb  1 10:22:52 firewall /bsd: rl0: watchdog timeout"
> 
> This box has two network cards, rl0 and rl1, both D-Link cheapies.
> (model is DFE-530 TX+)
> 
> rl1 works fine.  rl0 doesn't.  Both are connected to networks, link
> light happy, etc.
> 
> I might have a bum network card, it's possible, but I don't know if
> that's what this error is telling me.
> 
> Should my first course of action be to swap out the card, or are there
> places I can look for more information first?
> 
> Thanks,
> -m
> -- 
> Michael Jinks, IB // Technical Entity // Saecos Corporation
>