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Date:      Fri, 23 Feb 1996 11:05:58 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        mikee@sys8.wfc.com (Mike Eggleston)
Cc:        support@cdrom.com, questions@freebsd.com
Subject:   Re: out of buffers?
Message-ID:  <199602230035.LAA20644@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <9602221759.AA20327@sys8.wfc.com> from "Mike Eggleston" at Feb 22, 96 11:59:54 am

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Mike Eggleston stands accused of saying:
> 
> I've installed freebsd 2.1 and am trying to run the user version of
> ppp through a bitsurfer pro.  The dial and login chat scripts work and
> I do get connected to my provider.  I get the proper routes and can
> ping my gateway and other machines on the inet.  Sometime after I get
> connected my ping stops working saying that the network is unreachable
> and that its out of buffers.
> 
> What is running out of buffers and how can I allocate more buffers?  I
> assume these are MBUF's that have been exhausted.

Your link has gone down, and the kernel has run out of space to buffer
the extra packets to send.  You need to work out why the link has gone.


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