Re: [Security Firewall] no buffer space message

On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 12:36:17AM +0100, bascule wrote:
> i just got this message when logging directly onto the firewall machine:
> [root@sherlock]# ping 194.168.4.100
> connect: No buffer space available
> 
> i did 'service -R'
> and i saw lots of messages about messages being suppressed and the being a 
> 'dst cache overflow'
> i did a reboot and the net connection came back and i saw no more of those 
> messages, can someonw explain what they are?
> ok i just did a google and found that this is related to the routing table but 
> no clear indication if what might be causing it

I never saw this message before. I would begin by trying to tweak some
/etc/sysctl.conf parameters. Note that not all parameters are listed in
that file: some are just in /proc/sys/net

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