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From: tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help: running out of buffer?
Date: 21 May 1995 21:35:55 GMT
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In article <3pd81h$d0@nfxgate.nfx.com>, chiejin@nfx.com says...
>
>Hi there,
>
>Can someone help me with this?  I am running FreeBSD 2.0 running PPP to connect to 
>our Internet provider.  From time to time, the connection will run very slow.  And 
>if I ping the other side of the machine, I will get an error saying that there is 
>no more buffer left from PPP's sendto command.
>
>Is there any way to increase this buffer such that I don't have this problem?

  2.0R had serious PPP problems.  This is likely a bug.  The GENERIC kernel should have 
plently of buffers for a PPP connection.  2.0.5 is due out in days...I'd try that 
instead.

Tom