Re: neighbour table?

Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com)
19 Nov 2000 00:45:17 -0700


David Ford <david@linux.com> writes:

> Andrew Park wrote:
>
> > I get a message
> >
> > neighbour table overflow
> >
> > What does that mean? It seems that
> >
> > net/ipv4/route.c
> >
> > is the place where it prints this. But under what circumstances
> > does this happen?
> > Thanks
>
> It means you set the link state of eth0 up before lo.
>
> Be sure lo is established before eth0 and you won't see this message.

Hmm. How does the interaction work. I've been meaning to track it for
a while but haven't yet.

that aren't answered. (I.e when something is misconfigured and you try to nfsroot off
of the wrong ip on your subnet)
And I keep thinking neighbour table underflow would have been a better message.

Eric

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