From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 23 7: 2:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from netsrvr.ami.com.au (netsrvr.ami.com.au [203.55.31.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ACA837B491 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 07:02:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from summer@os2.ami.com.au) Received: from dugite.os2.ami.com.au (IDENT:root@c0s11.ami.com.au [203.55.31.76]) by netsrvr.ami.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA16178 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 23:02:47 +0800 Received: from possum.os2.ami.com.au (IDENT:summer@possum.os2.ami.com.au [192.168.1.6]) by dugite.os2.ami.com.au (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f1MNZQ607527 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 07:35:26 +0800 Message-Id: <200102222335.f1MNZQ607527@dugite.os2.ami.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ping: sendto: No Buffer Sapce available In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Feb 2001 03:04:00 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 07:37:13 +0800 From: John Summerfield Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG gmiddl1@gl.umbc.edu said: > This is the error i get when i try to ping a host on my network. My > bsdbox drops right off the face of the earth when i am telneted into > it. I cannot make it happen it just happens at random times....it also > happens when i use WEBMIN which i am sure some of you are familiar > with....it is one of the ports. Anywa all i have to do to bring it > back up on the network is ifconfig down up and it works again. > Can i downsize the MTU and solve this problem? Someone mentioned > NMBclusters at one time...whatever shall i do? > Regards, Interesting... I got this self-same error on Linux the other day. It turned out the firewall rules on the target host were cactus and it wasn't responding. -- Cheers John Summerfield http://www2.ami.com.au/ for OS/2 & linux information. Configuration, networking, combined IBM ftpsites index. Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message