I think it _might_ be because that bge0 is sharing an irq with one of
the usb controllers.  I'm going to disable as much of the onboard stuff
as possible that I have no intention of using.  (usb is one of them)

On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 10:11 -0400, Scott Ullrich wrote:
> Intel Intel Intel Intel.
> 
> Really, use Intel.
> 
> On 8/26/05, Matthew Lenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 01:50 -0400, Chris Buechler wrote:
> > > On 8/26/05, Matthew Lenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > The watchdog (atleast thats what
> > > > the system log called it) on my WAN interface reset the WAN interface 
> > > > (any
> > > > idea why that would have happened?)
> > >
> > > various reasons.  I have some Broadcom gig NIC's (bge) onboard on Dell
> > > 2550 servers that like to do this periodically for no apparent reason.
> > >  Takes the NIC down for a minute or two, and only happens maybe once a
> > > week if that, which isn't a big deal for these particular servers so I
> > > haven't taken the time to look into it much yet.  Seems to be a driver
> > > bug from the initial research I've done.  The best I've found in most
> > > situations is people saying "well, I gave up and dumped the bge card
> > > for an Intel and it's working fine".  Found one account of somebody
> > > that had access to the source code for the Windows driver and talked
> > > about how there were so many work arounds in it for bge hardware
> > > issues it wasn't even funny.  They seem to be solid on Windows though,
> > > so I don't know...
> > >
> > > anyway...What kind of NIC is it?
> > 
> > I'll give you one guess. :/ (hint: you just talked about it in the
> > previous paragraph)
> > 
> > > as for the rest, I'll leave that to somebody who knows about the CARP
> > > implementation.
> > >
> > > -cmb
> > 
> >

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