Re: tg3 error

[Alexander Hoogerhuis]

"Kamil Srot" <kamil.srot@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> Felix von Leitner wrote:
>> > A machine at a customer's site (running kernel 2.4.21) has stopped
>> > answering over Ethernet today.  The machine itself was still there and
>> > the customer could log in at the console.  A reboot fixed the problem.
>> >
>> > The machine has had these error messages in the syslog about once per
>> > hour for about 24 hours:
>> >
>> > Mar  9 16:17:38 mail2 kernel: tg3: eth0: transmit timed out, resetting
>> > Mar  9 16:17:38 mail2 kernel: tg3: tg3_stop_block timed out, ofs=3400
> enable_bit=2
>> > Mar  9 16:17:39 mail2 kernel: tg3: tg3_stop_block timed out, ofs=2400
> enable_bit=2
>> > Mar  9 16:17:39 mail2 kernel: tg3: tg3_stop_block timed out, ofs=1400
> enable_bit=2
>> > Mar  9 16:17:39 mail2 kernel: tg3: tg3_stop_block timed out, ofs=c00
> enable_bit=2
>>
>>
>> AFAIK this is fixed in the latest upstream tg3...
>
> I have exactly the same problems in 2.4.25 - the log says exactly the same
> as for Felix.
> I'm running two identical HP ProLiant servers but have this problem only on
> one of them.
> It's happening approximately twice a week.
>
> Any ideas?
>

Just to pipe in; I have a machine (HP 530cmt) running RHEL3 no the
latest kernel, running with the tg3-driver for the onboard eth, and if
requires the i/f to be taken down and up again to start speaking, or
even negotiating an eth-link. Hardware at the other end is a cisco switch.

mvh,
A
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