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To: Nicolis Roberta <roberta@intrasoft.it>
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Subject: Re: network buffers problem
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Nicolis Roberta <roberta@intrasoft.it> writes:
> recently I often  have the following  network problem on our FreeBSD
> (Release 2.1.6): suddenly the network stop working and when I try to
> ping another host on the local network, ping returns the following
> message:
> 
> No  buffers space available

Lemme guess: 3Com Etherlink III (3c509 / 3c509B)?

Try "ifconfig ep0 up".

DES (Philippe Regnauld, if you read this: told you so...)
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no

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