Network Slowdowns?

[Gergo Szakal]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
    Typically
    when that happens you get 'watchdog timeout' messages on the console.
Ehm, watchdog timeouts kill the network completely, don't they? I got a 
couple of them recently, but I'm pretty sure those ones weren't 
driver-related, cause in another place it runs fine now (and filters a 
whole Gbit network). All killed the network completely, had to reboot.