From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 14 14:54:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA09639 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 14:54:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA09507 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 14:54:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA27273; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 14:51:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 14:51:33 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Chandrasekar.K" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendto: No buffer space available In-Reply-To: <34BCC133.794B@serabi.lkg.dec.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Chandrasekar.K wrote: > Hi , > i installed freebsd 2.2.5 on my disgital celebris fx-2. > it has on board fast ethernet 21143 and two DE205 nic cards. > i am not using 21143 since it was giving an error when reading its > ROM ( de0: can't read ENET ROM (why=-4) > so i am using the NIC cards (DE205s) > after some time ( say 120 mins) i am getting the error > ping: sendto: No buffer space available. > ( i am pinging ofcource) The 21143 must be brand new, I've never seen it before. The ``no buffer space available'' message may be due to improper routing or your network adapter going south. Does the network work OK until this point? You might try running ifconfig de0 down ifconfig de0 up when it sticks up. Replace de0 with the name of the appropriate interface. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major