Re: Watchdog Timeout??

[Saad Kadhi <bsdguy@docisland.org>]

On Tue, 2002-01-01 at 04:04, Geoff Sweet wrote:
> I have a OpenBSD 2.9 machine running as a very simple firewall.
> 
> Hardware:
> Asus TUV4X VIAŽ VT82C694T North Bridge with VIA VT82C686B South Bridge
> 256M Ram
> Celeron 700Mhz
> (2) 3COM 3C905's
> 1.3 Gig IDE HD
> Floppy
> IDE CD-rom
> 
> Now whenever I boot the machine and the card that is configured for DHCP
> (xl0) attempts to fetch a ip I get two errors.
> 
> 1. I get "xl0 Watchdog Timeout:" and it kicks the card into another wait
> interval.
> 2. if I get a IP it then tells me:
>     DHCPACK from 12.242.16.34 rejected due to bogus yiaddr of 0.0.0.0
> 
> Then is tells me "Core dumped"
> 
> ummm what??  I am not sure where to go from here... HELP??  :-)  also if I
> do a dhclient from the command line it tells me "segmentation fault (core
> dumped)".
This is probably due to some kind of IRQ conflict. try to put on another
PCI slot or fiddle withe the IRQ settings. I used to have lots of those
errors & after digging into this list's archive, I came up with this
solution & my problems faded into limbo.

HTH

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