Hi, Under heavy traffic, I'm getting the above syslog message every day or two. Unfortunately, the failure is far from graceful: ifconfig up/down doesn't help, and the system is occasionally hung so that it's unreachable via other interfaces, forcing a reboot.
Some more details: Dual core 3.4GHz Intel CPU # cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.18.5abc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #3 SMP Fri Sep 7 21:32:00 IDT 2007 # lspci -v [...] 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 19) Subsystem: SysKonnect Unknown device 4340 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 74 Memory at d0020000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] I/O ports at 9000 [size=256] [virtual] Expansion ROM at 60000000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data Capabilities: [5c] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/1 Enable+ Capabilities: [e0] Express Legacy Endpoint IRQ 0 Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting [...] # cat /var/log/messages [...] Oct 26 09:39:45 abc kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth3: transmit timed out Oct 26 09:39:45 abc kernel: sky2 hardware hung? flushing Oct 26 09:48:35 abc kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth3: transmit timed out Oct 26 09:48:35 abc kernel: sky2 status report lost? [...] A quick google didn't find anything blindingly relevant. Any ideas, suggestions or hints humbly accepted. Thanks, Rony ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]