From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 22:29:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA13690 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:29:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA13680 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:29:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA01899; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:30:44 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:30:44 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Paul Abraham Mullaseril cc: questions@freebsd.com Subject: Re: Buffer In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 25 Nov 1996, Paul Abraham Mullaseril wrote: > I have the latest version of Free BSD 2.1.5 i believe. The > network deamon crashes on and off. This is then solved by rebooting my > machine. When the network is not visible to my computer, the output from > "ping" states that my buffer isn't large enough. It can also mean the interface is down. What ethernet card are you using? > Could it be that when I mail large documents somehow the whatever > buffer this is not cleared etc. If yes what command do I give to clear > this up or if Not have any one of you come accross this instability in > the program. No, not that I'm aware of. You could check this using 'mailq' to look at the mail queue and see if any messages are jamming up. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major