Troubleshooting Gateway Monitoring

In some cases, the dpinger gateway monitoring daemon will output numeric error codes in the Gateways log indicating a problem reaching the monitored target IP address. The errors on this page are the most common.

sendto error: 55

55 ENOBUFS
No buffer space available.
An operation on a socket or pipe was not performed because the system lacked sufficient buffer space or because a queue was full.

Several possible conditions can cause this. For a list of possible causes and solutions, see Troubleshooting “No buffer space available” Errors.

sendto error: 64

64 EHOSTDOWN
Host is down.
A socket operation failed because the destination host was down.

In this case, the firewall is unable to reach the a target host directly connected at layer 2 (No ARP response), or it received a similar error response from an upstream source. Generally this only happens due to remote problems, indicating that the target is actually down or the L1/L2 link to the target is down.

sendto error: 65

65 EHOSTUNREACH
No route to host.
A socket operation was attempted to an unreachable host.

Either there is no possible route to the target locally, or status information was received from an upstream router that indicated the same condition elsewhere along the path to the target.

This can happen due to a lack of default route, missing interface link route, or similar conditions.