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Date:      19 May 1998 15:46:27 +0200
From:      dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= )
To:        Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: leakage in ep-driver?
Message-ID:  <xzpra1qqsp8.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Mikhail Teterin's message of "Mon, 18 May 1998 14:15:02 -0400 (EDT)"
References:  <199805181815.OAA21666@rtfm.ziplink.net>

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Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> writes:
> The symptoms are:
> 
> 	* pinging local net machines from the gateway machine says:
> 		"No buffer space available"
> 	* pinging the gateway machine from local net machines says:
> 		"Host is down"
> 	* local net machines continue to ping each other just fine
> 	* all lights on the hub are fine
> 	* the other (de0) interface is functional, machine is
> 	  accessible from the Internet, continues to receive mail,
> 	  etc.
> 
> To heal the situation I had to (no rebooting, no):
> 
> 	ifconfig ep0 down
> 	ifconfig ep0 up
> 
> Any ideas? Thanks!

You're out of mbufs. Check 'netstat -m'. Add the following to your
kernel configuration:

options		"NMBCLUSTERS=8192"

The default is 512 + 16 * MAXUSERS. 8192 ought to be enough for anyone ;)

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