"NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out" errors

[Tom Diehl]

Hi all,

I have an FC4 box with all of the updates installed that I am using as
a firewall/router. When I load the iptables rules I get the following errors:

irq 12: nobody cared!
 [<c01517e4>] __report_bad_irq+0x24/0x7f
 [<c01518b6>] note_interrupt+0x59/0x83
 [<c0150b90>] __do_IRQ+0x1f7/0x347
 [<c0105b1d>] do_IRQ+0x4a/0x82
 =======================
 [<c0103c0e>] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20
 [<c0150ee1>] enable_irq+0x82/0x1d1
 [<de886435>] rhine_tx_timeout+0x10b/0x260 [via_rhine]
 [<c03185be>] dev_watchdog+0x0/0x221
 [<c03185be>] dev_watchdog+0x0/0x221
 [<c031875d>] dev_watchdog+0x19f/0x221
 [<c012cf53>] run_timer_softirq+0x10b/0x472
 [<c013a8eb>] __rcu_process_callbacks+0x4e/0x1c4
 [<c030723b>] net_tx_action+0x42/0x25f
 [<c0307876>] net_rx_action+0xbb/0x2bf
 [<c01282ce>] __do_softirq+0x3e/0x8a
 [<c0105c29>] do_softirq+0x3e/0x42
 =======================
 [<c0105b24>] do_IRQ+0x51/0x82
 [<c0103c0e>] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20
 [<c024a7ce>] acpi_processor_idle+0x10e/0x24c
 [<c01010a6>] cpu_idle+0x34/0x4c
 [<c042070a>] start_kernel+0x15d/0x1b7
 [<c04202f7>] unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x1b6
handlers:
[<c02d181e>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x52)
[<de886913>] (rhine_interrupt+0x0/0x260 [via_rhine])
Disabling IRQ #12
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
eth1: Transmit timed out, status 0003, PHY status 786d, resetting...
eth1: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1

Everything seems to be working OK but I do not think this is a good thing.
Can someone tell me what this means and how to fix it??

Regards,

Tom Diehl		tdiehl at rogueind.com		Spamtrap address mtd123 at rogueind.com