Another Transmit Timed Out Story

[Geoffry Meek]

For an hour last night syslogd wrote these messages:

> Feb  8 20:46:38 www kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out: status 0090 command
0000.

On a PII 300MHz running RedHat 5.2, 2.0.36 kernel.

The machine was completely unreachable. The ISP provided this for an answer:

>Around 9:20 PM EST yesterday, it became appearent that a failing network
device
>was flooding a segment of our network with broadcast traffic - The hardware
was
>replaced and the issue was resolved shortly thereafter.
>
>The traffic generated by the failing equipment was enough to send your
ethernet
>card into a panic, and effectively take your machine offline. This explains
the
>various kernel messages reporting errors with your network device.

My question is this: is this a known problem? If not, I hope I can provide
information to help fix it. If it is, please let me know.

Thanks,

Geoffry Meek