Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 08:15:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Jaime <jaime@snowmoon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ping: sendto: No buffer space available Message-ID: <20030617075240.L94567@malkav.snowmoon.com>
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I've been noticing for a few days that my network's performance is less than good. When I checked on it, I found that the firewall attempting to ping the ISP's DNS resolver would have "hiccups." The ISP claims that there is nothing wrong on the T-1 line and that there is a problem on the ethernet interface of the router (which leads to the firewall). The pings will run just fine for several minutes at a time and then begin to output this: ping: sendto: No buffer space available This will go on for anywhere from 15 seconds to 5 minutes, during which we're effectively not connected to the Internet at all. An occasional ping will work, but only about 1 in 20 and it seems random. Then, just as suddenly, the connection will work again. I'm not completely sure what this means, but I found the following command in the mailing list archives: cerberus# sysctl -a | grep intr_qu net.inet.ip.intr_queue_maxlen: 50 net.inet.ip.intr_queue_drops: 6987 Does anyone have any suggestions or tips? Thanks in advance, Jaime -- "To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." - Henry David Thoreau, _Where_I_Live_
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