Transmit timeouts on 440GX Ocotea on 10baseT-HD network

[Wade Farnsworth]

On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 08:15, Wade Farnsworth wrote:
> Hi Eugene,
> 
> I'm seeing some "NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out" messages on
> the Ocotea when it's connected to a 10baseT hub, and it's put under
> heavy load.  I'm using the most current 2.6 git tree.
> 
> This can be reproduced by ssh'ing into the Ocotea and running the
> command "ping <host-machine> -A -s 1200", then also doing the same ping
> command from the host to the Ocotea.  The pings will be successful for a
> short time, then all transmits on the Ocotea will stop for a few seconds
> (usually preceded by a few duplicate packets).  Transmits begin again
> once the timeout occurs. /proc/net/dev doesn't report any errors, just a
> few dropped packets.
> 
> Do you know what might be causing the EMAC to stop transmitting in this
> situation?

One more data point to consider:  I ran this test on an Ebony board, but
don't encounter any timeouts.  Do you know of any 440GX-specific issues
that might cause this?

Thanks again,

Wade Farnsworth