[Bug 454747] Re: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (via-rhine): transmit queue 0 timed out

[Rudi Daemen]

I don't manually reset the device. This is done automatically, after the
reset it renegotiaties the NIC speed too 100 full duplex and resumes
operation. It might be that I also experience loss but my network load
is so low it isn't noticeable.

I've bypassed the problem as well now by removing the RAID card I had to
free the only PCI slot in the machine and placed a Intel dualport GBit
nic. Then I proceded to blacklist the via_rhine module (for some reason
the BIOS does not allow me to hard-disable the two onboard nics) and I
have had no more issues since then. I will keep my subscription to this
bug open because I might start testing multicasting and vlan's and
intend to use seperate nics for seperate purposes.

I do believe I'm affected by the same bug (Same sequence of events
followed by a hard reset and the netdev watchdog dump in the logs) but
perhaps due to configuration differences (or even different
firmware/build revisions of the NIC) it was not fatal in my system.

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NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (via-rhine): transmit queue 0 timed out
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/454747
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