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Date:      Mon, 03 Feb 2003 16:10:29 -0600
From:      Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
To:        Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: "ping: sendto: No buffer space available"
Message-ID:  <336740000.1044310229@lerlaptop.iadfw.net>
In-Reply-To: <3E3EE7D5.2010401@potentialtech.com>
References:  <20030203212349.GG12779@pir.net> <3E3EE7D5.2010401@potentialtech.com>

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--On Monday, February 03, 2003 17:06:13 -0500 Bill Moran 
<wmoran@potentialtech.com> wrote:

> Peter Radcliffe wrote:
>> ping: sendto: No buffer space available
>> ping: sendto: No buffer space available
>>
>> I see this occasionally on my -stable box and havn't had a good
>> explanation of why and what buffer. Searching isn't turning up
>> anything useful.
>>
>> Is there something I can tweak to make this less likely ?
>
> What kind of interface are you pinging through?
>
> I've seen this on a VPN where the VPN was running out of entropy
> (from /dev/random).  I think it was a tun# interface.
>
> Could also be an MBUF thing.  Does netstat -m say anything scary?
I've seen it with NMAP over my WI0 card (Linksys V3).

MBUF's didn't show anything useful, unfortunately.

LER

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