bge0: PHY read timed out

[Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC]

On Sep 9, 2006, at 11:52 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:

>
> I have a machine that is acting up.  It was doing this a couple  
> weeks ago and I replaced the motherboard thinking that maybe the  
> physical ethernet port was going bad (connector or chip).  The new  
> motherboard is starting to act up the same way after a week or two  
> of running fine and I am wondering if something else might be the  
> issue.

I forgot to mention that the MB at issue is the Tyan S2850 single  
opteron MB.  This particular server had its MB replaced a week or two  
ago for the same sort of issue on bge1 that got progressively worse  
and I eventually turned it off in the BIOS.  Then a while later it  
started  seeming to freeze up with this same issue as listed below  
and I replaced the MB, which is starting to show the same issue.

I have a few other servers with the same MB and they have never had  
any issues.

Chad

>
> After the uname I list the stuff from the syslog before it goes off  
> the net and my auto rebooter power strip thinks it has crashed and  
> forces a reboot (which I have now turned off so I can go in and  
> look more next time it happens).  This did not happen for the last  
> week or two and all of a sudden happened about 5 times today...
>
> # uname -a
> FreeBSD whitwell.shire.net 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #1: Fri  
> May 19 01:50:39 MDT 2006     chad at mlg3.shire.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/ 
> sys/WHITWELL  i386
> #
>
>
> Sep  9 20:49:02 whitwell kernel: bge0: PHY read timed out
> Sep  9 20:49:02 whitwell last message repeated 3 times
> Sep  9 20:49:02 whitwell kernel: bge0: link state changed to DOWN
> Sep  9 20:49:04 whitwell kernel: bge0: PHY read timed out
>
> What does this message mean?  PHY read timed out?   I did a google  
> on it but the issues were various other things.
>
> Could this be a bad cable?
>
> Thanks
> Chad
>
>
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