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  • From: Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] ADSL stuff-up (was ADSL setup)
  • Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 13:19:48 +1000

Hi Folks,

I am sending this again, also. Sorry, breaking in a new installation of
Sylpheed.

On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 11:20:44 +1200
3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> 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
> ---------------------------------------------------
> 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
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> When you do "ifconfig" is there a listing for lo ?

when I type: ifconfig
No.

When I type: ifconfig -a

Yes.

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

Looks like it -
Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr:00:02:44:6E:65:5B
inet addr:192.168.1.5 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xde00

>
> (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.
>

?

Regards,
Ron

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Ron Clarke
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