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From: vince@bcsaic.UUCP (Vince Skahan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Problems with SLIP on Ultrix 4.0
Message-ID: <44805@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 91 19:50:54 GMT
References: <1991Apr3.210534.10734@scrumpy@.bnr.ca> <1991Apr4.105809.12887@uniwa.uwa.oz> <1991Apr9.143251.3737@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Boeing Aerospace and Electronics - Seattle
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In article <1991Apr9.143251.3737@watcgl.waterloo.edu> idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Ian! D. Allen [CGL]) writes:
>>>/etc/ping eden
>>>sendto: no buffer space available
>>>ping: wrote eden 64 chars, ret=-1
>
>Yes, we get this sometimes on VS3100 Ultrix 3.1 VAX as well when we
>temporarily unplug the Ethernet.  We have to push the reset button and
>reboot to recover.
>-- 
>-IAN! (Ian! D. Allen) idallen@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu
> [129.97.128.64]  Computer Graphics Lab/University of Waterloo/Ontario/Canada

if you give some qualifiers to ping/ you can work around it.

/etc/ping hostname 56 1
(1 set of 56 byte packets)



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