On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Carl Brewer wrote:

> I've got a NetBSD 1.6.1 box sitting behind a dialup
> line running IP Filter, sendmail & squid, to provide a
> firewall and mail routing for a small office.
>
> Every now and then (week or so) they see the following
> on the console :
>
> Jun 15 11:59:19 fw pppd[165]: write: No buffer space available

I've seen it too. A work-around seems to be to disable compression,
or reduce it -- with "deflate 9", I don't get that anymore at all.
The problem may be fixed in current and NetBSD 2.0, as they have a
newer version of pppd, but I haven't tried them yet for this.

> fw: {32} more peers/connect
> /dev/tty00
> 57600
> connect "/usr/sbin/chat -f /etc/ppp/chat-dialin-connect"
> defaultroute
> mru 1500
> crtscts
> modem
> lock
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> lcp-echo-interval 60
> lcp-echo-failure 6
> asyncmap 0x0
> passive
> persist
> noauth
> #usepeerdns

It's interesting that you're using "passive persist" instead of
"demand". Does the other side call you?

Frederick