Re: "Neighbour table overflow" in potato boot-up

[brian moore <bem@cmc.net>]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 09:55:55AM -0600, Alberto Brealey G. wrote:
> 
> i did a not-so-fresh install of potato last week (first installed base slink
> cause i have a bootable cdrom, then upgraded it to potato and installed the
> other packages). the machine worked fine in the office for a couple of days,
> then i moved it to another building, and the first time i tried to boot it
> up, it hangs with 'Neighbour table overflow' messages just before starting
> inetd (after klogd i believe).

As I recall, the above error message is cause by having no loopback
device.

> by the way, the box -when it was working- took a long time to start up
> inetd. i think i remember a message in the mailing list telling someone this
> was because the llopbak wasn't being initialized. is this it? any other
> ideas?

Don't know about a slow inetd startup: but it is the reason for the
'neighbour table overflow'.  Boot single user and fix
/etc/network/interfaces (the new and proper way) or /etc/init.d/network
for the old way.

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