no buffer space

[Norberto Meijome]

On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 08:31:15 -0700 (PDT)
Mark Busby <redtick at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> I have a firewall for my pppoe dsl connection that is giving me fits. After a few hours of surfing it runs out of buffer space. I have run memtest on the memory, checked fine. Changed out memory, still locking up.
>    
>   top while out of buffer on ping
>   last pid: 3697; load averages: 0.00, 0.03, 0.03 up 0+17:04:53 07:09:21
>   47 processes: 1 running, 46 sleeping
>   CPU states: 0.4% user, 0.0% nice, 0.4% system, 0.0% interrupt, 99.2% idle
>   Mem: 49M Active, 138M Inact, 49M Wired, 16K Cache, 47M Buf, 132M Free
>   Swap: 231M Total, 231M Free
>    
>   redtick# ping 75.41.xxx.xx
>   PING 75.41.xxx.xx (75.41.xxx.xx): 56 data bytes
>   ping: sendto: No buffer space available
>   ping: sendto: No buffer space available
>   ping: sendto: No buffer space available
>   ping: sendto: No buffer space available

what does  netstat -m show ?

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