From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Oct 13 14:44:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA26273 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 14:44:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from argus.acpub.duke.edu (argus.acpub.duke.edu [152.3.233.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA26251 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 14:44:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reese@chem.duke.edu) Received: from louis.ourway.com (async249-188.async.duke.edu [152.3.249.188]) by argus.acpub.duke.edu (8.8.5/Duke-4.5.3) with SMTP id RAA09091; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 17:40:48 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19971013214056.00700994@chem.duke.edu> X-Sender: reese@chem.duke.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 17:40:56 -0400 To: Richard Gresek From: Charles Reese Subject: Re: no buffer space Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I have not seen the no buffer space message, but I have been getting this collapse of network services. I will be telneted into one of my machines and all of the sudden I get no response to anything I type, no echo either. After a couple minutes the telnet session disconnects. If I ping the machine in question from outside the network it is still alive. After 5-10 minutes I can connect by telnet again and all is well for some time. dmesg shows no messages logged during the outage time. Please let me know if you figure this one out and I will do likewise. Cheers Charlie Reese At 10:40 PM 10/13/97 +0200, you wrote: >What does the message "no buffer space" mean exactly? > >We get this message every few weeks - especially when using something like >IPFW, tcpdump or trafshow. Few minutes after this message all networking >functions collaps and the machine is not reachable over network any more. > >The machine is the main gateway of a mid-sized network. It is running >FreeBSD 2.2.2. The network interface is a 3Com ISA Card. The machine is a >P5/200Mhz, 128 MB RAM, Adaptec Wide SCSII. > >Will this problem disappear with a PCI card. Are there some OS settings >that do influence the number and size of the related buffers? > >Thanks in advance > >Richard >#======================================================= ># Richard Gresek DPN Verbund-Partner ># c/o Plus.Line -> Frankfurt ># Mainzer Landstr. 222-224 -> Stuttgart ># D-60327 Frankfurt/M. -> Westerwald ># Tel.: +49 69 7589150 ># Fax: +49 69 610238 http://www.plusline.de >#======================================================= > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- Charles E. Reese * * Durham, NC 27710 * Buy Sell Trade CDs * 919-660-1585 * NO MIDDLEMAN * 919-544-7217 * TOTALLY FREE * * http://trader.ourway.com * reese@chem.duke.edu * * -------------------------------------------------------------