System halt when out of network buffers

[eric at cls.usask.ca (Eric Norum)]

Jake Janovetz wrote:
> 
> Nick,
> 
>    I had a similar problem when my board was _generating_ lots of
> packets for a certain protocol.  My solution was to increase the
> mbufs.  It was really the only solution because I could not lose
> those packets.
> 
>    However, I agree that it is better to lose packets than rtems_panic.
> 

You can put a limit on the size of the send and receive queues too.  A
low enough limit will ensure that you can't run out of mbufs.

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