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Re: NETDEV WATCHDOG error. Net dies. Why?



This one time, at band camp, Erik Persson said:
> About one week ago we suddenly began to get
> 
> kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
> 
> error messages, and all taffic on eth1 just died shortly thereafter.
> 
> We rebootet the machine and the messages disappeared for 2 days, but 
> today the problem appeared again. I have no idea what makes this happen.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea about what could be the problem?

You have a flaky:
A) NIC
b) cabling/hub/switch
C) kernel module

Upgrading the kernel is free, so I suggest that as a first step.  If
that fails, start swapping hardware.
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