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Date:      Thu, 17 Sep 1998 17:51:21 +0100
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To:        Hostas Red <kong@kong.spb.ru>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: strange things
Message-ID:  <19980917175121.A884@scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980917084121.23964A-100000@kong.dorms.spbu.ru>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980917084121.23964A-100000@kong.dorms.spbu.ru>

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Hostas Red wrote:

> kong@kong:~> ping www.freebsd.org
> PING freefall.freebsd.org (204.216.27.21): 56 data bytes
> ping: sendto: No buffer space available
> ping: sendto: No buffer space available
> ping: sendto: No buffer space available
> ping: sendto: No buffer space available
> ping: sendto: No buffer space available
> 
> This happens approx every 24 hours of uptime, or so. Sometimes less,
> sometimes more time can pass, but this always happens.

I hate saying this, since it makes me look like an AOLer, but, uh, me
too. I can't remember how long my system had been up. I can't remember
if stopping and restarting the ppp program cured it or not, I don't
think it did.

> When i use
> ifconfig xl0 down
> ifconfig xl0 up
> everything works again, but time passes and again 'No buffer space...'
> 
> What i'm getting wrong? Maybe 'xl' driver broken? Or what?

Must be more general than that: I'm using ppp so it affects the
tun interface as well.

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