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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>]

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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