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Date:      Tue, 14 May 2002 01:01:45 -0500
From:      "Maildrop" <maildrop@qwest.net>
To:        "Andrew Reilly" <areilly@bigpond.net.au>, kudzu@tenebras.com
Cc:        "Karl M. Joch" <k.joch@kmjeuro.com>, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: 4.5 and mpd "no buffer space available on high load" ??
Message-ID:  <NGBBIILBAKIFGHHCHOHPEEMGCPAA.maildrop@qwest.net>
In-Reply-To: <1021332824.8946.26.camel@gurney.reilly.home>

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Let me guess, are you using a fxp0 (Intel) card by chance?

Jack



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Andrew Reilly
> Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 6:34 PM
> To: kudzu@tenebras.com
> Cc: Karl M. Joch; stable@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: 4.5 and mpd "no buffer space available on high load" ??
>
>
> On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 09:16, Michael Sierchio wrote:
> > Andrew Reilly wrote:
> >
> > > I ran a script using jot to send ping packets across the link, with
> > > sizes varying from 1300 to 2300 bytes, while also watching
> the link with
> > > tcpdump.
> > >
> > > Only one ping failed (it didn't even get out), with the
> following error
> > > message:
> > > ping: sendto: Message too long
> > >
> > > I also saw a few "ip reassembly time exceeded" messages in
> tcpdump, but
> > > I'm not sure whether they were correlated.
> > >
> > > Most of my problems seem to have gone away when I added "add allow all
> > > from any to any frag" to my firewall script.  Not sure how it ever
> > > worked at all without that, though.
> >
> > Mind posting the IP addrs? I'd like to send you a few frags. ;-)
> >
> > Seriously,  that's a workaround that wouldn't be acceptable here.
>
> I did wonder about the security implications of that, but don't know
> enough IP to be sure.  The fact that that line is in /etc/rc.firewall,
> and has been since 1999 or so, made me think that it wouldn't be a
> problem.
>
> --
> Andrew
>
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