"no buffer space available" on Win2K

[Harold L Hunt II]

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
>>>>>
>>>>