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Re: What is neighbour table overlow?



On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 01:33:15PM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> I'm trying to install Debian on a rather old computer. During
> installation I'm getting "neighbour table overflow" messages.
> What do these mean and are they serious? The installatiion seems to
> continue regardless.

It usually means that the loopback interface is not up.  Can you ping
127.0.0.1?  If not, you should check /etc/network/interfaces and make
sure that it contains:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

Then you should probably run ifup eth0.

noah

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