Neighbour Table overflow

[John Paine]

Hi All,
am getting the above message on booting a linux Redhat 7.2 box.Anybody seen this before?
Thanks,
John.

[Eugen Cocalea]

Hi,

Excerpt from the page:

http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue65/tag/12.html

It means that your arp cache is overflowing because your machine can't tell who is on its
own subnet... its neighbors. Which usually means your localhost setup is broken (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.


Read the document that you will find following the above link for more info. (and learn to use google :) )

E.

[John Paine]

Thanks for the info Eugen.
Regards,
John.