Re: "no buffer space available" on Win2K

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Vince,

Is your machine under heavy load or under heavy network load?  I am 
wondering if some buffer on your network card is actually being 
overfilled, rather than Windows reporting that a socket-layer buffer is 
being overfilled.

Harold

Vince Hoffman wrote:
> Harold,
> 	Its a Compaq NS3161 fast ethernet.
> The closest I can find to something that could have modified the tcp stack
> is IIS URLscan but I'm not sure that would have changed anything but IIS.
> 	I'm working on finding something that will easily replicate the
> problem but its not easy. I have an strace of an ncftp that was running at
> the time it happened but it just shows 
> 1192 1291766386 [main] ncftp 1044 start_thread_socket: listen failed, Win32
> error 10055 (which is the out of buffer error)
> Its been a while since i had it happen with X (i dont use it as much as I
> did) but i'll keep trying and let people know if I find anything.
>
> Vince
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Harold L Hunt II [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
> > Sent: 30 April 2003 14:00
> > To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> > Subject: Re: "no buffer space available" on Win2K
> >
> >
> > Vince,
> >
> > Hmm... what sort of network card have you got on your 
> > machine?  Can you 
> > take a look around for software in the start menu and add/remove 
> > programs that sounds like it might provide VPN or firewall services?
> >
> > Harold
> >
> > Vince Hoffman wrote:
> >
> > > Nope, to the best of my knowledge there has been nothing 
> >
> > that has altered
> >
> > > the IP stack ( note the to the best of my knowledge as I am 
> >
> > not the only
> >
> > > person with access to these machines)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Harold L Hunt II [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
> > > > Sent: 30 April 2003 13:24
> > > > To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> > > > Subject: Re: "no buffer space available" on Win2K
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Andrew,
> > > >
> > > > Good point.
> > > >
> > > > Have either of you ever installed any VPN or firewall 
> > > > software on your 
> > > > computers?  (Note: I did not ask "are you running" any such 
> > > > software.  I 
> > > > want to know if it has ever, in the history of your Windows 
> > > > installation, been installed.)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Harold
> > > >
> > > > Andrew Markebo wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Hmm any firewall? uh.. stuff sliding in in the network 
> >
> > stack? (whats
> >
> > > > > their name, you know distributing networks encrypted, 
> >
> > killing spam?)
> >
> > > > >   /Andy