Andrew Park wrote:

> I get a message
>
>         neighbour table overflow
>
> What does that mean?  It seems that
>
>         net/ipv4/route.c
>
> is the place where it prints this.  But under what circumstances
> does this happen?
> Thanks

It means you set the link state of eth0 up before lo.

Be sure lo is established before eth0 and you won't see this message.

-d