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Subject: SUMMARY: out of buffers(!?)
From: "Richard A. Muirden" <richard () rmit ! edu ! au>
Date: 1995-08-31 6:48:07
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Hi all.
Here was my orig. request:
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Hi all.
I have a problem and no DEC manual is at all useful in tracking it
down to fix it. As DEC have still to respond to my erlier problem
regarding system performance (I put in a fault call last week) I
thought I would try here first.
Situation:
* Have just enabled fta0 device (FDDI).
The link is unavailable due to a "physical FDDI problem" (so says our comms
guy).
netstat -i gives:
# netstat -i
Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll
tu0 1500 DLI none 5148835 0 3360782 0 72207
tu0 1500 <Link> 08:00:2b:e2:8d:60 5148835 0 3360782 0 72207
tu0 1500 131.170.8 minyos 5148835 0 3360782 0 72207
fta0 4352 DLI none 0 0 512 0 0
fta0 4352 <Link> 08:00:2b:a6:e2:ff 0 0 512 0 0
fta0 4352 131.170.2 minyos 0 0 512 0 0
sl0* 296 <Link> 0 0 0 0 0
sl1* 296 <Link> 0 0 0 0 0
lo0 1536 <Link> 128980 0 128980 0 0
lo0 1536 loop localhost 128980 0 128980 0 0
netstat -I <interface> -s gives no clues as to the following problem:
when a user tries to use talk to a local user they get:
[Error on write to talk daemon : No buffer space available (55)]
and when I try and do a ping out via the FDDI link, I also see:
ping: sendto: No buffer space available
What buffer space? And how can I get these buffers back? is it because the
FDDI device is down? I have tried taking the interface down (ie: ifconfig
fta0 down) but that does nothing, and I can't find anything in the kernel
docs or the network administration or problem solving guide.
Any ideas?
OSF/1 V3.2A btw.
-richard
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Thank you to the following people:
Hellebo Knut
John Stoffel
Dave Cherkus
The reason for my problem was that I had configured both my interfaces
with the same name, which is a no no I am told. ie, I had:
Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll
tu0 1500 131.170.8 minyos 5148835 0 3360782 0 72207
fta0 4352 131.170.2 minyos 0 0 512 0 0
Nasty!
Changing this to:
Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll
tu0 1500 131.170.8 minyos 10924040 0 7299253 0 163158
fta0 4352 131.170.2 minyos-fddi 0 0 512 0 0
Using netsetup...worked fine!
The "out of buffers" referred to the fact that as our physical FDDI
link had been down (the card understands this and gives us Link Unavailable
and the green flashing lights) the network send buffers were full and
not being emptied by the card (for obvious reasons), this is why this
error occured.
Thanks again to everyone for your help.
-richard
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