Socket error: Out of buffers

[rbarradas]

Hi there...

I'm getting the above error in Wingate Standard's Gatekeeper . The version is already 4 months old.
Any idea on what might be causing that?
Thanks...

Rolando Barradas
rbarradas@dbi.pt

[adrien]

did you recently install the MS blaster patch on your machine?

Looks like that causes problems like this

[rbarradas]

Hello again...

I have the Blaster patch installed.
I read today in this forum that this might be a problem of the Wingate version I have installed. Any confirmation on that?
Thanks...

Rolando Barradas

[adrien]

It is proving difficult to confirm, we have run tests here, which do not confirm that it is causing a problem.

I wonder whether it is a combined effect with some other patch...

some people here have tested extensively, and can turn the problem on and off by installing and uninstalling the patch.

Adrien

[ccplthad]

It is proving difficult to confirm, we have run tests here, which do not confirm that it is causing a problem.

I wonder whether it is a combined effect with some other patch...

some people here have tested extensively, and can turn the problem on and off by installing and uninstalling the patch.

Adrien

I can confirm the problem on a Windows 2000 Pro machine with the following patches:

High Encryption Pack
SP4
MS Root Cert. Update
Recommended Update 822831
Recommended Update 818043
Security Update MSDAC 823718
Secuirty Update MSVM 816093
Security Update Windows 823559
Security Update Windows 2000 KB824146
Secuirty Update Windows KB824105
Oct 2003 Cum. update for IE501 for SP4 KB828750

The Wingate version is at 5.0.10 and was a fresh install (everything on that machine was a fresh install). What I would like to know is if this is fixed in 5.1.0? We have a policy of keeping current with the Microsofts patches and while a reboot solves the problem there are 105 users behind this machine plus members of the public it does not look good when we go down.

P.S. We have had an unlimited user license since June 1998.. Problems like the AV not scanning (Visnetic.. we haven't tried the newest one yet) and the ftp issue on http servers which run ftp and I fear we may be outgrowing WinGate as a production solution...

[VreebieS]

Based on my experience with previous releases of WinGate; if any of your client uses P2P software, you might encounter this out of buffers problem -- or completely lost internet connections.

The new v5.1 shows a satisfying result so far (much stable). However, it consumes a LOT of resources after a while 120Mb+. Therefore, still needing a service restart.

As of the New AV, IMO it performs very good so far.

[max3do]

When do u GEt this error....after some while...or as soon as u run wingate Engine??how many client u have...
useing nat? WGC Client? PROXY ??? on the client... ?????

[ccplthad]

When do u GEt this error....after some while...or as soon as u run wingate Engine??how many client u have...
useing nat? WGC Client? PROXY ??? on the client... ?????

This takes a while to occur maybe 1-2 days. We use NAT, port mapping, a couple of WG Clients and three web proxies. All of our services and proxies have the IP address specified (we do not let the operating system choose the best interface)

[Andrea]

I had this out of socket error come up for the first time today. I am using Ver 5.07. The only patches that I have that are the same are the KB824105 and the KB824146. The problem I had was when starting gatekeeper from the server but a re-boot fixed the problem.
Hopr it helps.

[adrien]

THis was a known issue that we fixed in WinGate 5.2 I believe - there was a kernel memory leak in the ENS driver, which was exascerbated with the installation of SP3 on Win2k.