Re: neighbor table overflow
On 16 Jun 2002, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote:
> I have installed woody on my machine, booting w/ RH 7.1. Right from the
> installation stages, I keep getting this message
>
> neighbor table overflow
>
> either singly or in sets of 4 - 6 instances of the message. I googled for
> this and it seems to be an error in finding other machines on the subnet
> (if I understand it correctly). But I have a standalone machine,
> connecting to the net via a 56k modem. No ethernet card here.
>
> What does this error mean ? How do I rectify it ?
>
> regards,
>
> Sharukh.
> --
> Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri
> Mumbai, India.
>
>
I have had this when /etc/network/interfaces was not configured.
It needed to contain the following, which for some reason was not
configured during installation.
# The loopback interface
# automatically added when upgrading
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
AC
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