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From: Ada T Lim <ada@not-enough.bandwidth.org>
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Subject: pppd & buffers
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Every so often, if a ppp link has been up for a reasonably long period
(> 1 day) nothing can be sent to the link - ping gives the following error:
polya 18:08 src/usr.bin/yacc% ping 129.78.231.114
PING 129.78.231.114 (129.78.231.114): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: No buffer space available
ping: wrote 129.78.231.114 64 chars, ret=-1
ping: sendto: No buffer space available
ping: wrote 129.78.231.114 64 chars, ret=-1
ping: sendto: No buffer space available
ping: wrote 129.78.231.114 64 chars, ret=-1


What would cause this?

Ada