Re: What does "Neighbour table overflow" message indicate?

[Steve Snyder]

No, and no errors are shown for it either:

# ifconfig lo
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:196907 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:196907 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

All *seems* well.  Just that 30-second period of messages and then silence.

Thanks for the response.

On Saturday 28 July 2001 08:38 pm, you wrote:
> is lo down?
>
>   --cw
>
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 08:23:14PM -0500, Steve Snyder wrote:
>     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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