An uneducated guess - but it looks like its renegotiating with the switch:
> Dec 14 02:07:47 zomba kernel: eth0: transmit timed > out, switching to > 100baseTx-FDX media. > Dec 14 02:07:55 zomba kernel: eth0: transmit timed > out, switching to > 10baseT-FDX media. > I'd try hard-setting it to 100Full and see if that improves things. Stephan --- Alan Vink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey Guys, > > Seeing that we`re onto nics at the moment, I > wondered if someone could give > us some insight on this. eth0 on this machine just > dies after aprox 2 hours > uptime and continuous use. It's an old K6 machine, > was 100% reliable and > served as a NAT router for aprox 1 year running > Redhat. Recently we upgraded > the box to Redhat 7.2 (no mods, just off the CD)and > now have this prob. > > The machine is using 2 very good but old reliable > DEC 100TX nics, chipset > "21143-PC" > > I guess it proves that one shouldn`t mess with stuff > that works, it's just > christmas time and things are settling down and I > needed something > "hardwarish" to play with on my lunch break.....its > that itch you get > sometimes! > > Oh, both nics are identical on eth0 and eth1, eth1 > does not display this > behaviour. > TIA, > Alan Vink > > Dec 14 02:07:23 zomba kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: > transmit timed out > Dec 14 02:07:23 zomba kernel: eth0: 21140 transmit > timed out, status > f0660000, SIA 000000c4 ffff0001 fff80000 8ff5c008, > res$ > Dec 14 02:07:23 zomba kernel: eth0: transmit timed > out, switching to > 10baseT-FDX media. > > Dec 14 02:07:23 zomba kernel: eth0: Out-of-sync > dirty pointer, 103722 vs. > 103739. > > Dec 14 02:07:47 zomba kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: > transmit timed out > Dec 14 02:07:47 zomba kernel: eth0: 21140 transmit > timed out, status > f0660000, SIA 000000c6 ffff0001 fff80000 8ff5c008, > res$ > Dec 14 02:07:47 zomba kernel: eth0: transmit timed > out, switching to > 100baseTx-FDX media. > > Dec 14 02:07:55 zomba kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: > transmit timed out > Dec 14 02:07:55 zomba kernel: eth0: 21140 transmit > timed out, status > f0660000, SIA 000000c4 ffff0001 fff80000 8ff5c008, > res$ > Dec 14 02:07:55 zomba kernel: eth0: transmit timed > out, switching to > 10baseT-FDX media. > > Dec 14 02:07:55 zomba kernel: eth0: Out-of-sync > dirty pointer, 103738 vs. > 103755. > > Dec 14 02:19:15 zomba kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: > transmit timed out > Dec 14 02:19:15 zomba kernel: eth0: 21140 transmit > timed out, status > f0660000, SIA 000000c6 ffff0001 fff80000 8ff5c008, > res$ > Dec 14 02:19:15 zomba kernel: eth0: transmit timed > out, switching to > 100baseTx-FDX media. > > Dec 14 02:19:23 zomba kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: > transmit timed out > Dec 14 02:19:23 zomba kernel: eth0: 21140 transmit > timed out, status > f0660000, SIA 000000c4 ffff0001 fff80000 8ff5c008, > res$ > Dec 14 02:19:23 zomba kernel: eth0: transmit timed > out, switching to > 10baseT-FDX media. > > Dec 14 02:19:23 zomba kernel: eth0: Out-of-sync > dirty pointer, 103754 vs. > 103771. > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - > http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug http://greetings.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Greetings - Send your festive greetings online! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
