From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 31 20:36:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA06951 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 20:36:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA06939 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 20:35:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (root@woof.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.7]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA16474; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 04:32:05 GMT (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woof.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id EAA10624; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 04:32:31 GMT (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199811010432.EAA10624@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Khetan Gajjar cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG (original recipient in envelope at chain.freebsd.os.org.za) Subject: Re: Problem with PPP in -current ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 30 Oct 1998 23:31:01 GMT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 04:32:29 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi. > > I'm noticing a strange problem with ppp. My 2.2-STABLE vintage ppp > never had this, but on my 3.0-CURRENT ppp (built on Oct 24 source), > I get > 757=[khetan@chain] ~$ ping 196.31.1.126 > + ping 196.31.1.126 > PING 196.31.1.126 (196.31.1.126): 56 data bytes > ping: sendto: No buffer space available [.....] > When I know the host is up. Killing ppp and restarting it solves > the problem. Any ideas ? Sounds like the host isn't up. Is your TX light flashing (or if you've got an internal modem, enable tcp/ip logging) ? The latest versions of ppp only read up to 20 packets from the tun device, if it can't send them anywhere, it stops reading 'till either it sends them or they die of old age (after 2 minutes by default). > --- > Khetan Gajjar (!kg1779) * khetan@iafrica.com ; khetan@os.org.za > http://www.os.org.za/~khetan * Talk/Finger khetan@chain.freebsd.os.org.za > UUNET Internet Africa Support * FreeBSD enthusiast-www2.za.freebsd.org > FreeBSD is like a wigwam - no windows, no gates, apache inside! -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message