WhatchDog Error on a Lan Card.

[Lowell Gilbert]

Jorge Biquez <jbiquez at icsmx.com> writes:

> Today I started receiving this error on the lan card.
> 
> 	r10: WATCHDOG TIMEOUT

The log message is reporting that the card locked up.

> And seems like the TCP/IP services stop passing thought the card. The
> machine continues running without seeing the world but no other errors
> beside the above on the console. One thing I notices is that if I try
> to ping any machine I receive and "overflow error". If I restart the
> machine everything works normally again.

You could try bringing the interface down and back up.

> The machine is running 4.8 Stable, running on a PIII - 1.0 Ghz with
> 512 RAM and more than enough free space. The machine is running only
> Apache with some load.
> 
> I changed the card with another of the same brand and type, its backup
> since I always buy 2 same cards for each equipment, just in
> case. After a few hours and under some load the machine send the same
> error.

If you're going to be careful enough to buy backup cards, it's worth
spending the money to buy something less junky.