From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Nov 27 23:25:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from moat.teksupport.net.au (moat.teksupport.net.au [203.17.1.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83C4E37B43B; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:25:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from rob.secombe.teksupport.net.au (rob.secombe.teksupport.net.au [192.168.1.2]) by moat.teksupport.net.au (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id fAS7ONZ99660; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:24:23 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from robseco@teksupport.net.au) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20011128172422.037bf9d0@mail.secombe> X-Sender: robseco@mail.secombe X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 17:24:22 +1000 To: Greg Black From: Rob Secombe Subject: Re: Whats with this -> sendto: No buffer space available Cc: Rowan Crowe , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.5.32.20011128151448.038174f0@mail.secombe> <3C0454B6.6000102@quake.com.au> <3.0.5.32.20011128151448.038174f0@mail.secombe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 Alcatel Speed Touch Home. Rob. At 17:06 28/11/01 +1000, Greg Black wrote: >Rob Secombe wrote: > >| I agree. I believe it is as a result of the output queue filling as a >| result of the link dying. In my case our customer was using a Alcatel ADSL >| modem and it was the ethernet link between the FreeBSD box and the modem >| that was falling over. I suspect that the NIC was trying to negotiate >| 100baseTX or the like and the modem is only capable of >| 10baseT/UTP. The link led on the modem goes out and the media status on the >| NIC was inactive in the failed state. The problem was resolved thus: >| >| ifconfig_rl1="media 10baseT/UTP -mediaopt full-duplex up" > >What kind of modem? My Alcatel ADSL modem states in its manual >that it provides a 10BaseT half-duplex interface and that's the >way I run it. I've never seen these problems, but I had a long >wait for Telstra to put the ADSL on the correct line and I've >only had my ADSL service running for a few days so far. > >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