From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Feb 3 14:10:33 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 730C737B401 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:10:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from lerlaptop.iadfw.net (lerlaptop.iadfw.net [206.66.13.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68FA043F79 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:10:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lerlaptop.iadfw.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h13MATe7004604; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:10:29 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 16:10:29 -0600 From: Larry Rosenman To: Bill Moran , 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> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.0.1 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --On Monday, February 03, 2003 17:06:13 -0500 Bill Moran 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 > > -- > Bill Moran > Potential Technologies > http://www.potentialtech.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message