From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 5 6:47:37 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 5 06:47:34 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.184.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4972437B400 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 06:47:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f05ElPC35717; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 09:47:25 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lowell) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, pol@leissner.se Subject: Re: What to do about this: xl0: no mem for rx list - packet dropped! References: From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 05 Jan 2001 09:47:24 -0500 In-Reply-To: pol@leissner.se's message of "4 Jan 2001 12:07:01 +0100" Message-ID: <44wvca3vk3.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Lines: 14 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message