I found it in logs (2.6.0-test6). It happened little while after I had reloaded dhcpd configuration. I'm not sure if it's related to NIC or ip-conntrack, but as both are mentioned... System information below. eth0: Media Link Off NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out eth0: Transmit timeout, status 00000004 00000000 Badness in local_bh_enable at kernel/softirq.c:119 Call Trace: [local_bh_enable+137/144] local_bh_enable+0x89/0x90 [_end+130859013/1069963240] ip_ct_find_proto+0x3d/0x60 [ip_conntrack] [_end+130860013/1069963240] destroy_conntrack+0x15/0x110 [ip_conntrack] [sock_wfree+73/80] sock_wfree+0x49/0x50 [__kfree_skb+143/272] __kfree_skb+0x8f/0x110 [_end+130608961/1069963240] sis900_tx_timeout+0x99/0x150 [sis900] [dev_watchdog+0/208] dev_watchdog+0x0/0xd0 [dev_watchdog+191/208] dev_watchdog+0xbf/0xd0 [run_timer_softirq+203/448] run_timer_softirq+0xcb/0x1c0 [do_timer+224/240] do_timer+0xe0/0xf0 [do_softirq+149/160] do_softirq+0x95/0xa0 [do_IRQ+267/352] do_IRQ+0x10b/0x160 [_stext+0/96] rest_init+0x0/0x60 [common_interrupt+24/32] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20 [_stext+0/96] rest_init+0x0/0x60 [default_idle+35/64] default_idle+0x23/0x40 [cpu_idle+52/64] cpu_idle+0x34/0x40 [start_kernel+342/368] start_kernel+0x156/0x170 [unknown_bootoption+0/288] unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x120 Badness in local_bh_enable at kernel/softirq.c:119 Call Trace: [local_bh_enable+137/144] local_bh_enable+0x89/0x90 [_end+130860237/1069963240] destroy_conntrack+0xf5/0x110 [ip_conntrack] [sock_wfree+73/80] sock_wfree+0x49/0x50 [__kfree_skb+143/272] __kfree_skb+0x8f/0x110 [_end+130608961/1069963240] sis900_tx_timeout+0x99/0x150 [sis900] [dev_watchdog+0/208] dev_watchdog+0x0/0xd0 [dev_watchdog+191/208] dev_watchdog+0xbf/0xd0 [run_timer_softirq+203/448] run_timer_softirq+0xcb/0x1c0 [do_timer+224/240] do_timer+0xe0/0xf0 [do_softirq+149/160] do_softirq+0x95/0xa0 [do_IRQ+267/352] do_IRQ+0x10b/0x160 [_stext+0/96] rest_init+0x0/0x60 [common_interrupt+24/32] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20 [_stext+0/96] rest_init+0x0/0x60 [default_idle+35/64] default_idle+0x23/0x40 [cpu_idle+52/64] cpu_idle+0x34/0x40 [start_kernel+342/368] start_kernel+0x156/0x170 [unknown_bootoption+0/288] unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x120 Badness in local_bh_enable at kernel/softirq.c:119 Call Trace: [local_bh_enable+137/144] local_bh_enable+0x89/0x90 [_end+130860184/1069963240] destroy_conntrack+0xc0/0x110 [ip_conntrack] [sock_wfree+73/80] sock_wfree+0x49/0x50 [__kfree_skb+143/272] __kfree_skb+0x8f/0x110 [_end+130608961/1069963240] sis900_tx_timeout+0x99/0x150 [sis900] [dev_watchdog+0/208] dev_watchdog+0x0/0xd0 [dev_watchdog+191/208] dev_watchdog+0xbf/0xd0 [run_timer_softirq+203/448] run_timer_softirq+0xcb/0x1c0 [do_timer+224/240] do_timer+0xe0/0xf0 [do_softirq+149/160] do_softirq+0x95/0xa0 [do_IRQ+267/352] do_IRQ+0x10b/0x160 [_stext+0/96] rest_init+0x0/0x60 [common_interrupt+24/32] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20 [_stext+0/96] rest_init+0x0/0x60 [default_idle+35/64] default_idle+0x23/0x40 [cpu_idle+52/64] cpu_idle+0x34/0x40 [start_kernel+342/368] start_kernel+0x156/0x170 [unknown_bootoption+0/288] unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x120 eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex config: http://zeus.polsl.gliwice.pl/~jfk/kernel/2.6.0-test6/config System information (please note, that it's running 2.6.0-test8 now): cpuinfo: http://zeus.polsl.gliwice.pl/~jfk/kernel/2.6.0-test6/cpuinfo dmesg: http://zeus.polsl.gliwice.pl/~jfk/kernel/2.6.0-test6/dmesg (boot options as in 2.6.0-test6) lsmod: http://zeus.polsl.gliwice.pl/~jfk/kernel/2.6.0-test6/lsmod lspci: http://zeus.polsl.gliwice.pl/~jfk/kernel/2.6.0-test6/lspci lspci -v: http://zeus.polsl.gliwice.pl/~jfk/kernel/2.6.0-test6/lspci-v lspci -v -v: http://zeus.polsl.gliwice.pl/~jfk/kernel/2.6.0-test6/lspci-v-v modules: http://zeus.polsl.gliwice.pl/~jfk/kernel/2.6.0-test6/modules module-init-tools: module-init-tools 0.9.15-pre2 If I can help somehow, please let me know :) bye -- Jacek Kawa **Trying to avoid complications often creates them. [F.Herbert]** - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html