From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 13 16:33:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mta03ps.bigpond.com (mta03ps.bigpond.com [144.135.25.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDD0C37B400 for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 16:33:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from areilly.bpc-users.org ([144.135.25.78]) by mta03ps.bigpond.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GW2PG700.93M for ; Tue, 14 May 2002 09:33:43 +1000 Received: from CPE-144-132-243-222.nsw.bigpond.net.au ([144.132.243.222]) by PSMAM04.mailsvc.email.bigpond.com(MailRouter V3.0m 92/931427); 14 May 2002 09:33:43 Received: (qmail 14831 invoked from network); 13 May 2002 23:33:43 -0000 Received: from localhost (andrew@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 May 2002 23:33:43 -0000 Subject: Re: 4.5 and mpd "no buffer space available on high load" ?? From: Andrew Reilly To: kudzu@tenebras.com Cc: "Karl M. Joch" , stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3CE04966.1060706@tenebras.com> References: <3CDFEA8A.4070809@kmjeuro.com> <1021330624.8946.23.camel@gurney.reilly.home> <3CE04966.1060706@tenebras.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.4 Date: 14 May 2002 09:33:43 +1000 Message-Id: <1021332824.8946.26.camel@gurney.reilly.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 09:16, Michael Sierchio wrote: > Andrew Reilly wrote: > > > I ran a script using jot to send ping packets across the link, with > > sizes varying from 1300 to 2300 bytes, while also watching the link with > > tcpdump. > > > > Only one ping failed (it didn't even get out), with the following error > > message: > > ping: sendto: Message too long > > > > I also saw a few "ip reassembly time exceeded" messages in tcpdump, but > > I'm not sure whether they were correlated. > > > > Most of my problems seem to have gone away when I added "add allow all > > from any to any frag" to my firewall script. Not sure how it ever > > worked at all without that, though. > > Mind posting the IP addrs? I'd like to send you a few frags. ;-) > > Seriously, that's a workaround that wouldn't be acceptable here. I did wonder about the security implications of that, but don't know enough IP to be sure. The fact that that line is in /etc/rc.firewall, and has been since 1999 or so, made me think that it wouldn't be a problem. -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message