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# sk149254 - VPN traffic issues with logs showing: "fwhandle_pool_add: Table kbufs - All available pools exhausted"

| Property | Value |
|----------|-------|
| Solution ID | sk149254 |
| Date Created | 2019-03-17 |
| Last Modified | 2021-03-02 |
| Technical Level | Advanced |
| OS | Gaia |

## Symptoms

- * Messages files contain logs indicating that the *kbuf* table is full:  
  Nov 21 00:09:23 2018 scc-fw0001 kernel: fwhandle_pool_add: Table kbufs - All available pools exhausted  
  Nov 21 00:09:25 2018 scc-fw0001 last message repeated 29 times  
  Nov 21 00:09:25 2018 scc-fw0001 kernel: RTM: failed setting opq to kbuf (rtm_create_new_opaque)  
  Nov 21 00:09:25 2018 scc-fw0001 kernel: fwhandle_pool_add: Table kbufs - All available pools exhausted  
  Nov 21 00:09:25 2018 scc-fw0001 kernel: RTM: failed setting opq to kbuf (rtm_create_new_opaque)  
  Nov 21 00:09:25 2018 scc-fw0001 kernel: fwhandle_pool_add: Table kbufs - All available pools exhausted  
  Nov 21 00:09:25 2018 scc-fw0001 kernel: RTM: failed setting opq to kbuf (rtm_create_new_opaque)  
  Nov 21 00:09:25 2018 scc-fw0001 kernel: fwhandle_pool_add: Table kbufs - All available pools exhausted  
  Nov 21 00:09:25 2018 scc-fw0001 kernel: RTM: failed setting opq to kbuf (rtm_create_new_opaque)  
  Nov 21 00:09:25 2018 scc-fw0001 kernel: fwhandle_pool_add: Table kbufs - All available pools exhausted  
  Nov 21 00:09:26 2018 scc-fw0001 last message repeated 6 times  
  Nov 21 00:09:26 2018 scc-fw0001 kernel: FW-1: fwx_create_xlbuf: error allocating kbuf  
  Nov 21 00:09:26 2018 scc-fw0001 kernel: FW-1: fwx_get_xlation: fwxl is NULL  
  Nov 21 00:09:26 2018 scc-fw0001 kernel: fwhandle_pool_add: Table kbufs - All available pools exhausted  
  Nov 21 00:09:26 2018 scc-fw0001 last message repeated 7 times  
  Nov 21 00:09:26 2018 scc-fw0001 kernel: FW-1: fwx_create_xlbuf: error allocating kbuf  
  Nov 21 00:09:26 2018 scc-fw0001 kernel: FW-1: fwx_get_xlation: fwxl is NULL  
  Nov 21 00:09:26 2018 scc-fw0001 kernel: fwhandle_pool_add: Table kbufs - All available pools exhausted  
  Nov 21 00:09:26 2018 scc-fw0001 kernel: FW-1: fwx_create_xlbuf: error allocating kbuf  
  Nov 21 00:09:26 2018 scc-fw0001 kernel: FW-1: fwx_get_xlation: fwxl is NULL Nov 2
* In the *vpn.elg* file, we can see:  
  fw_kbuf_allocate_multik(instance: 0): ioctl(FWKBUF): Cannot allocate memory

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