[Ilugc] Neighbor Table Overflow ????
- From: praveen@xxxxxxxxxxx (Praveen)
- Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 14:26:45 +0530
barani wrote:
I am using mandrake linux 9.2 . when i change the terminal to tty1 (ctrl Alt
F1) and work i get some messages as "neigbour table overflow"...it occurs
more often.. Can anyone tell me what does it mean and how to rectify it..?
Normally "Neighbour table overflow" error occurs when your kernel has
support for loopback but it is not configured. Try running
'/sbin/ifconfig'. It should list something like the following.
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
inet addr:10.1.172.XXX Bcast:10.1.175.255 Mask:255.255.252.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1347442089 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1681866671 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:2402199306 (2290.9 Mb) TX bytes:280719112 (267.7 Mb)
Interrupt:17 Base address:0x5000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:73018996 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:73018996 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4003708977 (3818.2 Mb) TX bytes:4003708977 (3818.2 Mb)
Note that 'lo' is configured here. If you don't see 'lo' listed, then
this is the one which causes the problem. To get rid of it, try doing
'/sbin/ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1'. Note that you must be 'root' to do this.
HTH.
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