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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.jersey.net!zeus.jersey.net!bherd From: bherd@zeus.jersey.net (Bil Herd) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Optimize for router processing Date: 14 Nov 1995 03:22:36 GMT Organization: InterActive Network - Serving SNJ - SLIP/PPP/SHELL Lines: 19 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <48921s$a5l@hermes.jersey.net> References: <47sr46$r3r@maxwell.eppet.pt> NNTP-Posting-Host: zeus.jersey.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Joao Neves Cabral (jcnc@maxwell.eppet.pt) wrote: : We currently have a FreeBSD box (486dx33 with 8mb of RAM) working as : an IP router to the Internet. The connection is established through : ppp with the dial-on-demmand capability. The machine also serves two : incomming dialup lines, supporting SLIP and PPP connections. : This box routes IP packets between two ethernet LAN's, between the : network hosts and the Internet, and between the PPP/SLIP hosts and : the all the computers. : Sometimes, on heavy traffic, I get the following message: : No buffer space available Try setting max users kernel variable to a higher number. This changes the amount of sspace allocated for buffers and the number of buffers, etc. -- Bil Herd InterActive Network Services