Interface resets with broadcom bcm5785 on freebsd 8.1-RELEASE/amd64

[Thomas Linden]

Hello,

I'm having lots of problems with my bge interface. A couple of times per
day the interface is being resettet by the kernel for some unknown
reason.

In syslog it looks like this:

Mar  4 10:52:08 p3 kernel: bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
Mar  4 10:52:08 p3 kernel: bge0: link state chaned to DOWN
Mar  4 10:52:10 p3 kernel: bge0: link state changed to UP
Mar  4 11:41:08 p3 kernel: bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
Mar  4 11:41:08 p3 kernel: bge0: link state changed to DOWN
Mar  4 11:41:10 p3 kernel: bge0: link state changed to UP
Mar  4 11:59:51 p3 kernel: bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
Mar  4 11:59:51 p3 kernel: bge0: link state changed to DOWN
Mar  4 11:59:53 p3 kernel: bge0: link state changed to UP

The card works otherwise.

pciconf -l -bcv:

bge0 at pci0:5:0:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x11291734 chip=0x169b14e4 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
    device     = 'NetLink BCM5787 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe'
    class      = network
    subclass   = ethernet
    bar   [10] = type Memory, range 64, base 0xddef0000, size 65536, enabled
    cap 01[48] = powerspec 3  supports D0 D3 current D0
    cap 03[50] = VPD
    cap 09[58] = vendor (length 120)
    cap 05[e8] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit enabled with 1 message
    cap 10[d0] = PCI-Express 1 endpoint max data 128(128) link x1(x1)

dmesg:

bge0: <Broadcom NetLink Gigabit Ethernet Controller, ASIC rev. 0x00b002> mem 0xddef0000-0xddefffff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci5
miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0
brgphy0: <BCM5787 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> PHY 1 on miibus0
bge0: Ethernet address: 00:19:99:7c:69:84

uname:

FreeBSD p3 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 19 02:36:49 UTC 2010 root at mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64



This runs on a rented server. The provider said tey cannot change the
network card (they could only change the mainboard, but it would have
the very same chip installed). I can't change the provider as well,
because the contract runs for twelve months.

So - I'd really need some help with this issue.



Thanks in advance,
TL