Hi

After running fine for a while, my new server running 6.2-RELEASE with latest security patches as of last Thursday or Friday started giving the message

bge0: PHY read timed out

and I found the following in the system log

Mar  6 02:59:33 server kernel: bge0: link state changed to DOWN
Mar  6 02:59:36 server kernel: bge0: link state changed to UP
Mar  6 03:00:27 server kernel: bge0: link state changed to DOWN
Mar  6 03:00:29 server kernel: bge0: link state changed to UP
Mar  6 05:09:27 server kernel: bge0: PHY read timed out
Mar  6 05:09:27 server last message repeated 3 times
Mar  6 05:09:27 server kernel: bge0: link state changed to DOWN
Mar  6 05:09:29 server kernel: bge0: PHY read timed out
Mar  6 05:09:50 server last message repeated 79 times
Mar  6 05:09:50 server kernel: bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
Mar  6 05:09:50 server kernel: bge0: PHY read timed out
Mar  6 05:09:50 server last message repeated 4 times
Mar  6 05:09:50 server kernel: bge0: RX CPU self-diagnostics failed!
Mar  6 05:09:50 server kernel: bge0: flow-through queue init failed
Mar  6 05:09:50 server kernel: bge0: initialization failure
Mar  6 05:09:52 server kernel: bge0: PHY read timed out
Mar  6 05:10:23 server last message repeated 140 times
Mar  6 05:12:24 server last message repeated 616 times
Mar  6 05:22:26 server last message repeated 2580 times
Mar  6 05:32:28 server last message repeated 2460 times
Mar  6 05:42:30 server last message repeated 2540 times
Mar  6 05:52:32 server last message repeated 2572 times
Mar  6 06:02:33 server last message repeated 2652 times
Mar  6 06:12:34 server last message repeated 2532 times
Mar  6 06:22:35 server last message repeated 2516 times
Mar  6 06:32:37 server last message repeated 2452 times
Mar  6 06:42:38 server last message repeated 2520 times
Mar  6 06:52:39 server last message repeated 2544 times
Mar  6 07:02:39 server last message repeated 2919 times
Mar  6 07:12:41 server last message repeated 2521 times
Mar  6 07:22:43 server last message repeated 2524 times
Mar  6 07:32:44 server last message repeated 2440 times
Mar  6 07:42:45 server last message repeated 2524 times
Mar  6 07:52:48 server last message repeated 2528 times
Mar  6 08:02:50 server last message repeated 2656 times
Mar  6 08:12:51 server last message repeated 2552 times
Mar  6 08:22:53 server last message repeated 2528 times
Mar  6 08:32:55 server last message repeated 2436 times
Mar  6 08:42:57 server last message repeated 2536 times
Mar  6 08:52:58 server last message repeated 2544 times
Mar  6 08:58:55 server last message repeated 1631 times

This appears to be a HW problem at first look. But when the server boots, it works fine for a while (hours, days??)

Here is the id in the boot message

Mar 6 09:01:21 server kernel: bge0: <Broadcom BCM5705 A3, ASIC rev. 0x3003> mem 0xfeab0000-0xfeabffff irq 16 at device 14.0 on pci1
Mar  6 09:01:21 server kernel: miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0
Mar 6 09:01:21 server kernel: brgphy0: <BCM5705 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> on miibus0 Mar 6 09:01:21 server kernel: brgphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto
Mar  6 09:01:21 server kernel: bge0: Ethernet address: 00:e0:81:61:e9:a0

Is this some sort of SW driver issue or is it a HW issue at first glance? I remember kind of reading about some BGE issues a while back.

Thanks
Chad

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Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
Your Web App and Email hosting provider
chad at shire.net



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