[clug] "Neighbour table overflow"

Matthew Hawkins matt at mh.dropbear.id.au
Tue Oct 28 16:15:34 EST 2003


Kim Holburn said:
> At 1:58 PM +1100 03/10/28, Matthew Hawkins wrote:
>>Umm.. you can increase the size of the table via a /proc entry.
>
> Which one?

/proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/default/gc_thresh3

>>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.

^^^^^^ that is important to check out because there's no way in hell on an
average system you'll be legitimately overflowing the table.  It's too big
by default.

-- 
Matt



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