On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 01:53:07PM -0500, Robert Matijasec uttered:
> 56 data byes
> neighbour table overflow
> ping:sendto: No buffer space available
> ping:wrote 24.217.12.166 64 chars ret=-1
> neighbour table overflow
> etc, etc ...
>
Put 'auto lo' on a line by itself in /etc/network/interfaces, and 'ifup lo'
You can't ping the loopback interface if it isn't up!
Another thought is that you forgot loopback support in your kernel?
--
Steve
"I'm a sysadmin because I couldn't beat a blind monkey in a coding contest."
--Me
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