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To: Mike Eggleston <mikee@sys8.wfc.com>
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Subject: Re: out of buffers? 
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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 21:20:27 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> I've installed freebsd 2.1 and am trying to run the user version of
> ppp through a bitsurfer pro.  The dial and login chat scripts work and
> I do get connected to my provider.  I get the proper routes and can
> ping my gateway and other machines on the inet.  Sometime after I get
> connected my ping stops working saying that the network is unreachable
> and that its out of buffers.

It's out of buffers because the other end has stopped accepting data
(either from a problem on its side or a link error).  This is not
something you can fix by allocating more buffer space, this is
something you need to fix by figuring out why the connection is dying.

					Jordan