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

[Chris Wedgwood]

On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 08:53:48PM -0500, Steve Snyder wrote:

    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.

What is the machine doing?  What kind of network is it attached to and
with how many hosts on it?

  --cw