kern/86261: 'out of buffer space' after many PPPoE re-dial attempts, connectivity lost

[Gleb Smirnoff]

The following reply was made to PR kern/86261; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius at FreeBSD.org>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/86261: 'out of buffer space' after many PPPoE re-dial attempts, connectivity lost
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:32:46 +0400

   Attach this to Audit-Trail.
 
 ----- Forwarded message from Bob Frazier <bobf at mrp3.com> -----
 
 >   next time this happends, please check the following things:
 
 It happened again today
 
 > 1) Does restart ppp(8) helps? To check this you will need to:
 >
 >    /etc/rc.d/ppp-user stop
 >    [check that no ppp process is present]
 
 in my case it was still running.  I did a 'kill ###' on it, which ended it.
 
 >    /etc/rc.d/ppp-user start
 
 This made the problem go away!  Only /dev/tun0 was present, so the tun
 device was properly deleted when I killed the process, FYI.
 
 So it looks like it's client-side ppp doing it.
 
 ----- End forwarded message -----