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Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 02:35:27 +0200
From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Vincent Goupil <spoug@hotmail.com>
Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Packets dropped by FreeBSD
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On 2002-11-23 00:28, Vincent Goupil <spoug@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I run FreeBSD 4.6.2 as a Firewall with ipfilter 3.4.27.
> I have 4 3C905.  I currently have "network slowdown" during peak hours:
> packets are being dropped by the firewall, I get timeouts with mail and
> web, I ping interfaces but I get just some icmp replys.  The cpu run idle.
>
> The firewall run sshd, jftpgw and snmpd.
>
> If I reboot, all go back to normal operation.
> During off hours, we don't have this problem.

Any hints about mbuf exchaustion in the output of "netstat -m" ?


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