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

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 09:15:11PM -0500, Steve Snyder wrote:
> 
> Further snooping shows the error msg text in file inux/net/ipv4/route.c:
> 
>     if (net_ratelimit())
>         printk("Neighbour table overflow.\n");
> 
> The reference to "net_ratelimit" make me wonder if it is related to 
> iptables.  I am using iptable, and have since kernel 2.4.1, but I've seen 
> these messages before.  Hmmm.

net_ratelimit() is there to only log something every 5 seconds,
so your logs don't get flooded.  It should be used for every
printk that has to do with net.

See core/utils.c

Kurt