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Date:      Wed, 22 Nov 2000 15:07:09 +0100 (CET)
From:      Blaz Zupan <blaz@gold.amis.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   No buffer space available - the weird way
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011221501520.4872-100000@titanic.medinet.si>

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Customer has a FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE machine (in a remote location, so a upgrade
to 4.x is not so easily done) which suddenly decided it does not want to pass
all network traffic.

Here's the network card it has:

tx0: <SMC 83c170> rev 0x06 int a irq 11 on pci0.10.0
tx0: address 00:e0:29:25:5f:1a, type SMC9432TX, Auto-Neg 10Mbps

Pinging a host on the local network produces something like this:

64 bytes from 192.168.0.10: icmp_seq=6 ttl=128 time=1.702 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.10: icmp_seq=7 ttl=128 time=0.584 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.10: icmp_seq=8 ttl=128 time=4.104 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.10: icmp_seq=9 ttl=128 time=1.143 ms
ping: sendto: No buffer space available
64 bytes from 192.168.0.10: icmp_seq=101 ttl=128 time=5.948 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.10: icmp_seq=102 ttl=128 time=31.502 ms
ping: sendto: No buffer space available
64 bytes from 192.168.0.10: icmp_seq=104 ttl=128 time=0.638 ms

So every couple of packets, it decides that it does not have enough network
buffers available. Why? This was working just fine and absolutely no changes
have been made to the machine since it was originally installed. Also network
traffic on the LAN is not high at all.

I have decided to recompile a kernel and increased maxusers to 128 and set
NMBCLUSTERS to 4096. Nothing changed.

I'm totally at loss as to what might be causing this. Ideas on how to solve
this problem will be much appreciated.

Blaz Zupan,  Medinet d.o.o, Linhartova 21, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia
E-mail: blaz@amis.net, Tel: +386-2-320-6320, Fax: +386-2-320-6325



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