Problems with SLIP on Ultrix 4.0

[Vince Skahan]

In article <1991Apr9.143251.3737 at watcgl.waterloo.edu> idallen at 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 at watcgl.uwaterloo.ca idallen at 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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