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SubjectRe: Transmit timeout with 3c395, 2.4.19, 2.4.22
Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
>
> Hi Andrew, hi list!
>
> Suddenly, after 160 days of running, our bridged firewall started to
> spit out this:
> NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
>
> ...
>
> This always happened with eth1, so we think it *may* a hardware error
> creeping in. I would like to know wether this can be the case, or
> wether there is something else (switches on the other side, ...) which
> may have produced these errors.

Yes, a bad cable might explain this. Or another host which is babbling
away all the time (on a half-duplex setup).

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