From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 11 10:50:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from starfish.fsr.com (starfish.fsr.com [207.141.24.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E72137B416 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 10:50:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (mharsh@localhost) by starfish.fsr.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1BIoQk00428; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 10:50:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mharsh@fsr.com) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 10:50:26 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Harshbarger To: Stuart Tanner Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: ping: no buffer space available In-Reply-To: <001101c1b2de$7107b960$d3bb2fcb@sigterm.com> Message-ID: <20020211103732.D37186-100000@starfish.fsr.com> Approved: Neemis Enterprises MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had a similar problem 4(?) years ago when I tried to use 3c509B ethernet cards in a router/gateway box I built. The ethernet interface would just hang every so often and stop passing traffic. My solution was to ifconfig ep0 down; ifconfig ep0 up every time it hung until I got them replaced. Something about the 3com drivers in that particular version of FreeBSD not completely supporting the "B" revision 3com cards. I moved to a different brand card and my problems vanished. If this trick starts your ethernet traffic up again, I'd suggest looking into buying a different brand ethernet card that might be better supported by FreeBSD. Just remember to replace "ep0" above with whatever ethernet device you're using (check "ifconfig -a"). On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Stuart Tanner wrote: > I recently had an ADSL connection installed. I connected it to a Pentium 75 > to gateway for a small network. After a while (anywhere from 2 to 36 hours) > the connection hangs. When I try to ping from the gateway to the outside > world I get the following message: > > ping: no buffer space available > > Any suggestions? > > -- > Stuart > > "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." -- informal PARC > slogan > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message