Peter Nixon schrieb:
On Mon 03 Apr 2006 16:59, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
Hi,
Peter Nixon schrieb:
We have a bunch of Sun X2100 opteron servers running SUSE 10.0 and one of them magically stopped responding to network requests in the middle of the night (after operating perfectly for 1 month). A power down solved the problem, however a simple reboot did not! The log messages are below.
Apr 3 11:42:56 server kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Is anyone else have problems with the nv ethernet interface on their X2100 servers (and USB keyboards)?
Known problem, a fix is in the works. Note: All versions except SUSE Linux 10.0 do not have this bug. However, to not break anything, a simple down-/upgrade of the driver is not possible.
So what is the workaround/fix?
Still investigating. Downgrading the driver breaks support for some chipsets, upgrading the driver to a halfway recent version has other risks (new bugs). I'm favoring a downgrade, but that will affect exactly those users who need the bugfix most. So that's not really an option. forcedeth from Linux 2.6.15 may be a safe choice. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/