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From: mikee@sys8.wfc.com (Mike Eggleston)
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Subject: out of buffers?
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 96 14:42:59 CST
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I've installed freebsd 2.1 and am trying to run the user version of
ppp through a bitsurfer pro.  The dial and login chat scripts work and
I do get connected to my provider.  I get the proper routes and can
ping my gateway and other machines on the inet.  Sometime after I get
connected my ping stops working saying that the network is unreachable
and that its out of buffers.

What is running out of buffers and how can I allocate more buffers?  I
assume these are MBUF's that have been exhausted.

netstat -m shows that at one point I was up to 88% of available
buffers used.

I'm on a p133 machine with 16mb ram and 2gb scsi and scsi cdrom.

TIA

Mike