From owner-freebsd-questions  Tue Jun  8 17: 7:58 1999
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP
	id 07AA4152E5; Tue,  8 Jun 1999 17:07:40 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com)
Received: (from cjc@localhost)
	by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id UAA00617;
	Tue, 8 Jun 1999 20:08:47 -0400 (EDT)
	(envelope-from cjc)
From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
Message-Id: <199906090008.UAA00617@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
Subject: Re: Router Problems
In-Reply-To: <375CF437.F3904036@opentech.stpn.soft.net> from Dinesh Pal at "Jun 8, 99 04:15:12 pm"
To: pdinesh@opentech.stpn.soft.net (Dinesh Pal)
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 20:08:39 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Questions)
Reply-To: cjclark@home.com
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)]
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

Hi, Dinesh. This is a question much beyond the scope of
freebsd-newbies. I am forwarding this to
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org.

I do not have any solid answers, but some comments below...

Dinesh Pal wrote,
> Hello,
> 
> I have installed a FreeBSD 2.1.0 which is working as a router .

You just installed 2.1.0? Do you realize that the present release
version of FreeBSD is 3.2? I would suggest upgrading to at least
2.2.8-STABLE[0], if not 3.x-STABLE.

> It has two Network Interface cards.
> 
> 1. Very frequently it igives following error message if I do a ping
>    to any system on my internal    network. Ping works ok to any system
> in
>    outside world. We also can not ping this system from any local
> machine.
> 
>   " ping send to: no buffer space available."
> 
> 2. System also reports " ix.cx.excesscoll" frequently on the console.
> 
> I want to know why these error messages are comming and what I should do
> to rectify them.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Dinesh Pal
> System Administartor
> Open Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.
> Noida
> India

[0] The jump from a 2.x.x to 3.x system has some tricks to it. If
continuity of service is important, go to 2.2.8 unless you really know
what you are doing. If this is a fresh install and you are working out
bugs and configuring from scratch, however, might as well start at
3.x-STABLE... my humble opinions of course.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message