From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 26 02:06:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA10256 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 02:06:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from diablo.ppp.de (diablo.ppp.de [193.141.101.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA10247 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 02:06:41 -0800 (PST) From: Greg Lehey Received: from freebie.lemis.de by diablo.ppp.de with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0vSK7r-000QrbC; Tue, 26 Nov 96 10:48 MET Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.de (8.8.3/8.6.12) id KAA00387; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 10:33:12 +0100 (MET) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Message-Id: <199611260933.KAA00387@freebie.lemis.de> Subject: Re: Buffer In-Reply-To: from Paul Abraham Mullaseril at "Nov 25, 96 10:52:09 pm" To: pabraham@PAbraham-S.mankato.msus.edu (Paul Abraham Mullaseril) Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 10:33:11 +0100 (MET) Cc: questions@freebsd.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Paul Abraham Mullaseril writes: > Hi > I have the latest version of Free BSD 2.1.5 i believe. It would be nice if you would check. > The network deamon crashes on and off Which one? inetd? > This is then solved by rebooting my machine. It's easier just to restart the daemon: # inetd In any case, it would be nice to know how you found out, and to see any messages relating to the problems. > When the network is not visible to my computer, the output from > "ping" states that my buffer isn't large enough. Which buffer? Not enough mbufs, or not enough mbuf clusters? If that's the case, let's see the output of 'netstat -m'. > 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. I don't really know what you're describing here. A few exact messages would really help. Greg