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Date:      Mon, 03 Feb 2003 17:06:13 -0500
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "ping: sendto: No buffer space available"
Message-ID:  <3E3EE7D5.2010401@potentialtech.com>
References:  <20030203212349.GG12779@pir.net>

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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?

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com


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