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Ron Clarke wrote:
>
> neighbour table overflow
> neighbour table overflow
> neighbour table overflow
> 
> I am getting that message a lot now.   What does it mean ?

According to  http://linuxgazette.net/issue65/tag/12.html
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It means that your arp cache is overflowing because 
your machine can't tell who is on its own subnet.  
Which usually means your localhost setup is broken 
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When you do "ifconfig" is there a listing for lo ?

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or, far less commonly, that your netmask for your 
own external address is wrong.
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When you do "ifconfig" is the eth0 Mask 255.255.255.0 ?

Cheers,
Steven








(because lots of applications use networking internal to your machine - which 
is always on its own subnet, so those packets should never even escape the 
computer) or, far less commonly, that your netmask for your own external 
address is wrong.



















> 
> 
> 
> > Forget about rc.inet1 (for now).  Please re-read the step-by-step
> > I gave you yesterday.  Insmod the card.  Give the card an address
> > (using ifconfig).  Ping the router.  It is not complicated.  Do 
> > not do the ifconfig until you are sure the insmod worked.  Do not 
> > do the ping until you are sure the ifconfig worked.
> > 
> > We need to pinpoint exactly which step is failing.
> 
>     That was what I did this morning.  The ping failed.   I can see the 
> lights flashing on the ADSL modem, but nothing is getting sent back to my 
> computer.  Does the modem not know where to send the bounce ?
> At this time of the morning, there is no other computer connected to the 
> LAN.
> 
> FWIW: I fluked a net connection with BL2 once, and I don't know what made 
> it work.
> I haven't been able to get past a failed ping ever since.
> 
>     Has the kernel been damaged in some way ?  Should I get a fresh kernel ?
> 
> Regards,
>         Ron
> 
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