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Date:      05 Jan 2001 09:47:24 -0500
From:      Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, pol@leissner.se
Subject:   Re: What to do about this: xl0: no mem for rx list - packet dropped!
Message-ID:  <44wvca3vk3.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net>
In-Reply-To: pol@leissner.se's message of "4 Jan 2001 12:07:01 %2B0100"
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.30.0101041159590.2540-100000@nic-i.leissner.se>

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pol@leissner.se (Peter Olsson) writes:

> We have recently installed FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE.
> Yesterday networking stopped working and the following error
> appeared continuously on the console:
> xl0: no mem for rx list - packet dropped
> 
> Reboot solved the problem, but we expect it to come back.
> 
> The machine has two network cards, one Intel and one 3Com.
> A probable fix would be to exchange the Intel card and use two 3Com cards.
> But is there some explanation/fix/kernel hack to the xl0 problem?

You're running out of mbufs.  Increase maxusers or even just NMBCLUSTERS.


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