From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Nov 27 23:51:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from gw.gbch.net (gw.gbch.net [203.143.238.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3DA9137B419 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:51:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 46242 invoked by uid 1001); 28 Nov 2001 17:51:21 +1000 X-Posted-By: GJB-Post 2.23 27-Nov-2001 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-Uptime: 6 days, 23:56 X-Location: Brisbane, Australia; 27.49841S 152.98439E X-URL: http://www.gbch.net/gjb.html X-Image-URL: http://www.gbch.net/gjb/gjb-auug048.gif X-GPG-Fingerprint: EBB2 2A92 A79D 1533 AC00 3C46 5D83 B6FB 4B04 B7D6 X-PGP-Public-Keys: http://www.gbch.net/keys.html Message-Id: Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 17:51:20 +1000 From: Greg Black To: Rob Secombe Cc: Rowan Crowe , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Whats with this -> sendto: No buffer space available References: <3C0454B6.6000102@quake.com.au> <3.0.5.32.20011128151448.038174f0@mail.secombe> In-reply-to: of Wed, 28 Nov 2001 17:06:56 +1000 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 I 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. Sigh. I left out the type of modem I was using. It's an Alcatel Speed Touch Home ADSL modem. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message