On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :Hi: > : > :nfe0: watchdog timeout - lost interrupt recovered > : > :The network access from this machine or to this machine is at > :best sporadic and SSH clients timeout. > : > :The box has a NVIDIA nForce 405 Nvidia (n...@pci0:0:7:0). > : > :Is there any workaround to fix this issue ? > : > :-- > :thanks > :Saifi. > > It sounds like nfe0's interrupt is miswired, you have two choices: > > (1) Try running nfs0 in polling mode. > > ifconfig nfe0 polling > > (2) Compile SMP but without APIC_IO. This might fix the interrupt > routing issue too. > > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > <[email protected]> >
Thank you for the suggestions Matt. The option (1) worked fine with the following approach: . comment out dhcp enabled line in rc.conf . # ifconfig nfe0 polling . # dhclient nfe0 On another note, the same issue was noticed with NetBSD 5.x on the same box. -- thanks Saifi.
