Bug#426440: /usr/sbin/pppd: sometimes connection with Option GlobeTrotter card hangs, ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 04:55:40PM +0200, Miernik wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 04:36:55PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> > I am reluctant to try a kernel that old on my personal notebook. I
> > have broadband again now, and do not use the UMTS card that often any
> > more.
> 
> root@debian106:~# ifconfig ppp0
> ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
>           inet addr:10.243.69.180  P-t-P:10.64.64.64  Mask:255.255.255.255
>           UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:923 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:1040 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
>           RX bytes:1136175 (1.0 MiB)  TX bytes:73000 (71.2 KiB)
> 
> root@debian106:~# ping 212.2.96.31
> PING 212.2.96.31 (212.2.96.31) 56(84) bytes of data.
> ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available
> ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available
> ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available
> 
> --- 212.2.96.31 ping statistics ---
> 3 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 21078ms
> 
> root@debian106:~# uname -a
> Linux debian106 2.6.15.7 #4 Sat Jun 9 11:40:51 CEST 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
> root@debian106:~#
> 
> Damn :-(

Does this error still occur with more recent kernel versions?

Cheers,
        Moritz