Bill Moran wrote:
RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tuesday 01 August 2006 20:39, Efren Bravo wrote:
Hi,
I've a freeBSD box and I've been seeing this
message for several months: sis0 watchdog
timeout.
The box has two ethernet cards, sis0 (100mb) and
vr0 (10mb).
The messages isn't frequent but yesterday it got
my attention. What does this mean?
from sis(4)
sis%d: watchdog timeout The device has stopped responding to the net-
work, or there is a problem with the network connection (e.g. a cable
fault).
I've seen this frequently with sis cards. My opinion is that all sis
cards are cheapo crap, and watchdog timer is a workaround to try to make
them work in spite of being crap. I've seen sis cards in Windows machines
and they perform lousy there as well.
I always got these errors on sis cards too - always ignored then.
Worked fine for me on a lightly loaded network.
If you start getting real symptoms - card locking up for example - then
you;ll have to get a better network card. But unless and until that
happens I would ignore it.
--Alex
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