From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Nov 27 19:43:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from wizard.teksupport.net.au (wizard.teksupport.net.au [203.17.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A14E37B417 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 19:43:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from warlock (portcullis2.teksupport.net.au [203.17.1.10]) by wizard.teksupport.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA22758 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 14:43:45 +1100 (EST) From: "Rob Secombe" To: "FreeBSD ISP" Subject: RE: Whats with this -> sendto: No buffer space available Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 14:43:16 +1100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I had a similar problem and suspect that the symptom is a effect rather that a cause. I found that when the problem occurred the link led on the ADSL modem went out so I tried locking the Fast Ethernet NIC in the FreeBSD box to 10base/UTP and the problem went away. Cheers Rob. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Forrest W. Christian Sent: Wednesday, 28 November 2001 2:36 PM To: Jeff Lynch Cc: Kal Torak; FreeBSD ISP Subject: Re: Whats with this -> sendto: No buffer space available What does a netstat -m show when this occurs? I suspect you don't have enough mbufs. On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Jeff Lynch wrote: > Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 21:13:47 -0600 (CST) > From: Jeff Lynch > To: Kal Torak > Cc: FreeBSD ISP > Subject: Re: Whats with this -> sendto: No buffer space available > > Funny you should mention this. We see the same thing > with a vtun pipe and the tun device. Have to take the > ppp interface down and up to get traffic flowing again. > > --jeff > > On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Kal Torak wrote: > > > 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!! > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > > > > ============================================================================ > Jeffrey A. Lynch | JORSM Internet, Regional Internet Services > email: jeff@jorsm.com | 7 Area Codes in Chicagoland and NW Indiana > Voice: (219)322-2180 | 100Mbps+ Connectivity, 56K-DS3, V.90, ISDN > Autoresponse: info@jorsm.com | Quality Service, Affordable Prices > http://www.jorsm.com | Serving Gov, Biz, Residential Since 1995 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > - Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) AC7DE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Innovation Machine Ltd. P.O. Box 5749 http://www.imach.com/ Helena, MT 59604 Home of PacketFlux Technogies and BackupDNS.com (406)-442-6648 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect your personal freedoms - visit http://www.lp.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message