No continuous ping reply in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and results in ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available

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Issue

  • No continuous ping reply in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and results in ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available.

  • PPP is configured

    -- Ping output -- 
 64 bytes from X.X.X.X: icmp_seq=57 ttl=121 time=448 ms 
64 bytes from X.X.X.X  icmp_seq=58 ttl=121 time=164 ms 
ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available 
ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available 
ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • System is configured to use USB Mobile Broadband for internet connection.

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