From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 17 23:37:47 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C420416A4CE for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 23:37:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AC6843D31 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 23:37:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D29E65D04; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 18:37:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 59397-08; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 18:37:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-50-112.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.50.112]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1F0F5CE7; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 18:37:45 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <42152AAB.2090403@mac.com> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 18:37:15 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: MacConnect Home Office References: <1bf416c30aaeecd6e632028a30180284@macconnect.com> In-Reply-To: <1bf416c30aaeecd6e632028a30180284@macconnect.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nmbclusters question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 23:37:47 -0000 MacConnect Home Office wrote: > In theory, if my nmbclusters setting was too low, and traffic on my > machine made nmbclusters hit its ceiling, could my machine go "deaf" to > network connections without logging any errors in the log files? No. Or probably not, as you haven't mentioned which services you are running, but NMBCLUSTERS is supposed to be self-tuning unless you override it yourself. Something like Apache or sendmail or SSH would complain about ENOBUFS/"out of network buffer space" errors to their logfiles if they were not able to listen for incoming connections. More probably, you have some kind of intermittant hardware failure, but diagnosing the issue using ping and tcpdump would be a lot more useful. > I'm running FreeBSD 4.3. Time to update. :-) -- -Chuck