[clug] "Neighbour table overflow"

Kim Holburn kim.holburn at anu.edu.au
Tue Oct 28 15:05:27 EST 2003


At 1:58 PM +1100 03/10/28, Matthew Hawkins wrote:
>Martijn van Oosterhout said:
>> Neighbour table I beleive refers to your arp table. If you type "arp -an"
>> what do you get? The other command that might work "ip neigh list"
>>
>> How to fix it I don't know.
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 01:03:52PM +1100, Kim Holburn wrote:
>>> I have a system that gets lots of these messages: "Neighbour table
>>> overflow"
>>>
>>> It appears to have something to do with rt_cache but I'm not sure I know
>>> what that is.
>>>
>>> I'll keep reading but anyone have any clues for me?
>>>
>>> Anyone
>
>Buellor?
>
>Umm.. you can increase the size of the table via a /proc entry. 

Which one?

>But what
>you might like to do first is make sure you don't have any dud routing
>table entries (eg, cyclic ones) that are causing this problem.
>
>--
>Matt


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