A ping question and the infamous "sendto: No buffer space available" message

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From: Ralph Yozzo
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 1989 10:29

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Has anyone run into a situation where "ping'ing" a host
gives a 

sendto:No buffer space available

message.
 
If someone has, I'd like to hear from him/her.
The only solution that I found is to reboot the machine.
Needless to say, the administration people are not to
thrilled with my constant rebooting.
 
What I was wondering is "Is there a way to reset the ping
or TCP buffers without rebooting?" 
 
Also,
"What is the 
sendto:No buffer space available 
message mean?
 
I have checked "netstat -m" and there are
plently of mbufs available.

I've also tried killing inetd and restarting it
without any success.

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From: yozzo@larouch.uucp (Ralph Yozzo)
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Subject: A ping question and the infamous "sendto: No buffer space available" message
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Date: 1 Dec 89 10:29:32 GMT
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