em0: watchdog timeout -- resetting

[Carlos Sean Kamtha]

On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 04:29:27PM +0200, Michiel Boland wrote:
> Hi. I frequently get
> 
>  em0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
> 
> messages, followed by loss of network at the most inopportune moments.
> 
> It appears that it can be triggered by things like typing 'portinstall 
> mozilla' over an SSH connection. But that is just a hunch.
> 
> Any ideas how to debug this further?
> 
> Hardware is a dell optiplex GX270. Kernel is -CURRENT from 29 june.
> 

I suggest that this is an hardware issue. I have dealt with this
problem before and fixed it by replacing the NIC. I hope this is
an option for now. 

Carlos.