What does "Neighbour table overflow" message indicate?

Steve Snyder (swsnyder@home.com)
Sat, 28 Jul 2001 20:23:14 -0500

I just got this sequence of messages in my system log:

Jul 28 19:47:44 sunburn kernel: Neighbour table overflow.
Jul 28 19:47:44 sunburn last message repeated 9 times
Jul 28 19:47:49 sunburn kernel: NET: 53 messages suppressed.
Jul 28 19:47:49 sunburn kernel: Neighbour table overflow.
Jul 28 19:48:07 sunburn kernel: NET: 21 messages suppressed.
Jul 28 19:48:07 sunburn kernel: Neighbour table overflow.
Jul 28 19:48:09 sunburn last message repeated 3 times
Jul 28 19:48:14 sunburn kernel: NET: 4 messages suppressed.
Jul 28 19:48:14 sunburn kernel: Neighbour table overflow.

This is on a RedHat v7.1 + SMP kernel v2.4.7 system. What is the kernel
trying to tell me here?

Please cc me as I am not a subscriber to this list.

Thanks.
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