On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:16:41AM +0000, Stefan Olsson wrote: > I have an intermittent problem on one of my firewalls. It has worked well for > years with different openbsd-releases but a few days after installing a > snapshot a few months ago it sometimes just stops taking traffic on the > internal nic. And all you get at the console is "watchdog timeout on re1".
I had that behavior when running openbsd (and netbsd) in qemu, which was fixed (hacked around) by disabling mpbios: For OpenBSD, we need to disable mpbios (for full details, see http://scie.nti.st/2009/10/4/running-openbsd-4-5-in-kvm-on-ubuntu-linux-9-04). In brief, login to OpenBSD as root and type the following, then reboot: config -ef /bsd disable mpbios quit So give that a try, maybe it will work for you too? If you follow the link it also describes how to disable mpbios for a single boot. Sam
