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On SCO systems, this is apt to indicate a problem with the Intel Pro100 nic card driver; see http://aplawrence.com/cgi-bin/ta.pl?109718
In general, a watchdog timer is a piece of code that attempts to keep some other piece of code from getting stuck in an endless loop. Usually that's done by some common data structure that the code being watched is supposed to update frequently. The watchdog code keeps checking; if it sees that the data has not been updated, it assumes the other program has gone awry.
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