On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 08:15, Wade Farnsworth wrote: > Hi Eugene, > > I'm seeing some "NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out" messages on > the Ocotea when it's connected to a 10baseT hub, and it's put under > heavy load. I'm using the most current 2.6 git tree. > > This can be reproduced by ssh'ing into the Ocotea and running the > command "ping <host-machine> -A -s 1200", then also doing the same ping > command from the host to the Ocotea. The pings will be successful for a > short time, then all transmits on the Ocotea will stop for a few seconds > (usually preceded by a few duplicate packets). Transmits begin again > once the timeout occurs. /proc/net/dev doesn't report any errors, just a > few dropped packets. > > Do you know what might be causing the EMAC to stop transmitting in this > situation?
One more data point to consider: I ran this test on an Ebony board, but don't encounter any timeouts. Do you know of any 440GX-specific issues that might cause this? Thanks again, Wade Farnsworth
