I would start with tuning the TCP/network settings of the machine.
SImilar to this:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-tcp-tuning/
and searching for high performance network linux tuning will give you more
results.
A little bit tricky is that you cannot reproduce the error.

Best
Martin


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Von: Daniel Pocock [mailto:[email protected]] 
Gesendet: Dienstag, 5. August 2014 20:14
An: [email protected]
Betreff: [Shorewall-users] ARP stops, error: No buffer space available



Hi all,

I have a virtual firewall with 4 ports, eth[0-3]

It stopped responding to ARP requests on one of the ports, eth3.  Hosts
would try to ping the machine, running tcpdump on the machine I would see
the ARP "who-has" requests coming in but no answers going back.

I tried pinging out to a host on that port and got no reply.  tcpdump showed
no packet going out.

Traceroute gives an error "No buffer space available":

# traceroute -n 192.168.1.79
traceroute to 192.168.1.79 (192.168.1.79), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets send
probe: No buffer space available

and arping gives a similar error:

# arping -s ab:cd:ef:12:34:56 -i eth3 192.168.1.79 ARPING 192.168.1.79
arping: libnet_write(): libnet_write_link(): only -1 bytes written (No
buffer space available)

I tried putting the interface down and up again:

ifdown eth3
ifup eth3

and restarting shorewall but it didn't help.

Finally, after rebooting the virtual firewall box it worked again.  It had
been running for 253 days before the reboot.

Looking in Google I found various other people had seen the "No buffer space
available" error and some had to reboot each time.

It is a standard Debian kernel:
Linux myhost 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.54-2 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Can anybody comment on further troubleshooting steps if I see this problem
again?

Regards,

Daniel


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