anyone?

N. Yaakov Ziskind wrote (on Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 01:20:46PM -0400):
> so, today, genius administrator 'somehow' unplugs the
> firewall (on a separate box), plus, 'perhaps,' some
> switches.
>
> immediately, all the telnet sessions to the SCO 506a box
> just halt. one by one, they drop dead.
>
> console displays "No memory for streams (NSTRPAGES)"
> over and over. otherwise unresponsive. i mentally debate
> powering down the system, then i get a brainstorm, and unplug
> the server's network jack. immediately, console comes back to
> life. plug it back in, ppl can telnet again. woot.
>
> netstat -m has two funny rows:
> config alloc free total max fail
>
> class 1, 64 bytes 576 41 535 -701344641 562 0
> (i assume that a counter overflowed) and
> class 6, 2048 bytes 1886 597 1289 1213818877 1886 10734386
>
> (spacing slightly adjusted).
>
> 1) anyone care to toss a conjecture what the heck happened?
>
> 2) do I need to do anything now for this box?
>
> I can't recall ever seeing this message before on this box.
>
> thanks!

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