Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 19:29:49 +0930 (CST) From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: ada@not-enough.bandwidth.org (Ada T Lim) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pppd & buffers Message-ID: <199708160959.TAA00398@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199708160810.SAA18844@polya.blah.org> from Ada T Lim at "Aug 16, 97 06:10:57 pm"
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Ada T Lim writes: > Every so often, if a ppp link has been up for a reasonably long period > (> 1 day) nothing can be sent to the link - ping gives the following error: > polya 18:08 src/usr.bin/yacc% ping 129.78.231.114 > PING 129.78.231.114 (129.78.231.114): 56 data bytes > ping: sendto: No buffer space available > ping: wrote 129.78.231.114 64 chars, ret=-1 > ping: sendto: No buffer space available > ping: wrote 129.78.231.114 64 chars, ret=-1 > ping: sendto: No buffer space available > ping: wrote 129.78.231.114 64 chars, ret=-1 > > > What would cause this? Lack of buffer draining. Probably your link isn't working. This kind of question really belongs in FreeBSD-questions. If you've looked through the code and don't understand *why*, that would be a good question for -hackers. How about a followup to -questions with details of any messages. Do you still have a modem connection? Greg
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