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Subject: RE: Whats with this -> sendto: No buffer space available
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...do you have a limit set on the firewall logging compiled in the
kernel...??? packets can overload the system as I undertand it....

At 02:20 PM 11.28.2001 +1100, Andrew Cowan wrote:
>I use Helstra ADSL in Melbourne on freeBSD 4.3 and have never had any
>problems.
>I will dig up my kernel config, ppp.conf, whatever etc, if no one knows the
>actual cause of the problem and see if we can find anything.
>
>Andy
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Kal Torak
>Sent: Wednesday, 28 November 2001 14:07 PM
>To: FreeBSD Stable; FreeBSD ISP
>Subject: Whats with this -> sendto: No buffer space available
>
>
>This keeps happening...
>
>I have adsl running on my gateway using pppoe with userppp
>and its internal nat enabled, also a fairly simple ipfw config
>blocking a few ports...
>
>Now every so often all data stops and checking on the gateway
>trying to send something I get the "sendto: No buffer space available"
>error and have to reboot and everything is fine again...
>
>It seems to happen at random, sometimes its fine for a week,
>sometimes only a few days and it happens... There is nothing
>of interest logged in ppp.log or security or messages...
>
>What causes this buffer to fill up and not empty? Here in australia
>telstras adsl is really crap and you often cant get more than 2
>hops past the peer... Im wondering if its something to do with
>apps like bitchx trying to constantly reconnect when the network
>is down filling up the buffer???
>
>But shouldnt the buffer eventualy empty as things time out or something?
>There is really not that much that should be trying to connect besides
>a few irc sessions...
>
>Anyway any ideas? Should I tweek some settings? Increase the max users
>in the kernel? This is a really annoying little problem...
>
>Thanks!!
>
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Best regards,
Jack L. Stone,
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