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On Jan 20, 2004, at 12:02 PM, Brent Bailey wrote:
> the errors im concerned about are
> 5775699 dropped due to full socket buffers
>
> and
>  319427 dropped due to no socket
>
> the first makes me think that the buffers are depleted and cant 
> written to
> if so ...how do i correct this ?

"netstat -m" should list the network memory buffers and their usage.  
You might try adding:

options NMBCLUSTERS=8192

...to your kernel config file and rebuilding your kernel, if you were 
running low.

-- 
-Chuck