Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 17:06:56 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net> To: Rob Secombe <robseco@teksupport.net.au> Cc: Rowan Crowe <rowan@sensation.net.au>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Whats with this -> sendto: No buffer space available Message-ID: <nospam-1006931216.43764@bambi.gbch.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20011128151448.038174f0@mail.secombe> of Wed, 28 Nov 2001 15:14:48 %2B1000 References: <3C0454B6.6000102@quake.com.au> <3.0.5.32.20011128151448.038174f0@mail.secombe>
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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 <full-duplex> 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-stable" in the body of the message
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