Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 11:54:46 -0800 (PST) From: Mikko Tyolajarvi <mikko@dynas.se> To: stuart@sigterm.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ping: no buffer space available Message-ID: <200202111954.g1BJskP57337@mikko.rsa.com> References: <001101c1b2de$7107b960$d3bb2fcb@sigterm.com>
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In local.freebsd.questions you write:
>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:
This may or may not be the same as your problem, but...
I had similar experiences when running ppp/dsl on a P166. About once
a week ppp would get stuck, but when I used pppctl to it to see what
was going on, it came to life again. I meant to debug ppp, but never
took the time to do it, and instead installed a cron job that did
"pppctl /var/run/pppctl-sock show phy > /dev/null" every two minutes.
Ugly, but it sort-of worked.
After switching to a faster machine (Celeron 400), the problem has
only occured once in six months. I suspect some kind of
timing-sensitive bug in ppp, which is more likely to show up on a
slower machine.
There might be other clues in the ppp log as well.
>ping: no buffer space available
That is the result of ppp not reading packets.
$.02,
/Mikko
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Mikko Työläjärvi_______________________________________mikko@rsasecurity.com
RSA Security
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