From owner-freebsd-net Sun Jan 28 20:11:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from VL-MS-MR003.sc1.videotron.ca (relais.videotron.ca [24.201.245.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1AB637B699; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 20:11:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from jehovah ([24.201.144.31]) by VL-MS-MR003.sc1.videotron.ca (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id G7WOYL03.4RH; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 23:11:09 -0500 Message-ID: <003e01c089a9$c4287d00$1f90c918@jehovah> From: "Bosko Milekic" To: "Wesley Morgan" , "G. Jason Middleton" , Cc: References: Subject: Re: no buffer space available (outcome of netstat -m) Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 23:12:59 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org What device are you using? What is the interface you ifconfig'd down and back up? Jason, can you also contribute? Boris, if you're reading this, if you see that both these gentlemen have the same interface, perhaps we have a winner? I've been unable to find the problem as of yet (frankly, I've had little time to look too deeply). Regards, Bosko. Wesley Morgan wrote: > When this happened to me once before, I ifconfig'd the interface down and > back up... Viola, working interface. Never figured out what caused it > though :) > > On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, G. Jason Middleton wrote: > > > The original problem was an still is > ping: sendto: no buffer space > > avaialble. > > > > I was able to reproduce the error today while telneting in to the box. I > > was ftping through telnet and i did an "ls" and it got halfway through a > > directory listing and crapped out on my. the box was no where to be found > > on the network/internet. > > > > OK i did the netstat -m and got he following output > > > > 298/352/4096 mbufs in use (current/peak/max) > > 170 mbufs allocated to data > > 128 mbufs allocated to packets headers > > 41/160/1024 mbuf clusters in use (current/peak/max) > > 408 kbytes allocated to network (13% of mb-map in use) > > 0 requests for mem denied > > 0 requests for mem delayed > > 0 calls to protocol drain routines > > > > > > what next? > > > > Jason > > > > > > Does this happen regularly? Check `netstat -m' on the machine (you'll > > probably have to do it from the console) when this is happening. > > If it happens regularly, does anything specific happen that "helps > > reproduce it?" > > What version of FreeBSD are you running? > > > > -Bosko > > > > G. Jason Middleton wrote: > > > > > I have a problem. > > > I can telnet into my bsd box from the net and after a while it will > > just not > > > let me in. It just drops right off the face of the earth. So when i > > > actually try to ping something from the box after this happens i get > > an > > > error as follows: > > > > > > ping: sendto: no buffer space avaialble. > > > > > > > > > when i reboot everything works like it should. > > > > > > Got any ideas? > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > G. Jason Middleton > > > University of Maryland Baltimore County > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message > > > > -- > _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ > Wesley N Morgan _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ > morganw@chemikals.org _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | > FreeBSD: The Power To Serve _ |___/___/___/ > 6bone: 3ffe:1ce3:7::b4ff:fe53:c297 > Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message