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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: David Ford <david@linux.com>
Cc: Andrew Park <apark@cdf.toronto.edu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: neighbour table?
Date: 19 Nov 2000 00:45:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1ofzc4d82.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011190158480.3036-100000@blue.cdf.utoronto.ca> <3A1779D9.409FB87B@linux.com>
In-Reply-To: David Ford's message of "Sat, 18 Nov 2000 22:57:29 -0800"

David Ford <david@linux.com> writes:

> 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.

Hmm.  How does the interaction work.  I've been meaning to track it for
a while but haven't yet.  

>From the cases I have observed it seems to be connected with arp requests
that aren't answered. (I.e when something is misconfigured and you try to nfsroot off
of the wrong ip on your subnet)
And I keep thinking neighbour table underflow would have been a better message.

Eric

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  reply	other threads:[~2000-11-19 10:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-13 13:08 [PATCH] pcmcia event thread. (fwd) David Woodhouse
2000-11-13 13:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-11-16 13:28   ` Alan Cox
2000-11-13 14:37 ` David Woodhouse
2000-11-13 15:04   ` Jeff Garzik
2000-11-13 15:14   ` David Woodhouse
2000-11-13 15:33     ` Jeff Garzik
2000-11-16 13:39       ` Alan Cox
2000-11-16 14:14         ` David Woodhouse
2000-11-16 16:28           ` Tobias Ringstrom
2000-11-18 11:24           ` Pavel Machek
2000-11-13 15:42     ` David Woodhouse
2000-11-13 18:59       ` David Hinds
2000-11-13 21:52         ` David Woodhouse
2000-11-13 21:57           ` David Hinds
2000-11-13 22:30         ` David Woodhouse
2000-11-13 22:47           ` Jeff Garzik
2000-01-01  2:54             ` Pavel Machek
2000-11-16 21:26               ` tytso
2000-11-16 21:42                 ` David Hinds
2000-11-13 23:04             ` David Woodhouse
2000-11-16 16:08             ` Alan Cox
2000-11-16 16:15               ` Jeff Garzik
2000-11-16 16:20                 ` Alan Cox
2000-11-17  0:51               ` Russell King
2000-11-17 10:54                 ` Alan Cox
2000-11-17 16:21                   ` Linus Torvalds
2000-11-17 16:29                     ` Alan Cox
2000-11-17 16:35                       ` Linus Torvalds
2000-11-17 16:39                         ` Alan Cox
2000-11-17 16:34                     ` Russell King
2000-11-17 16:17                 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-11-17 16:34                   ` David Woodhouse
2000-11-17 16:40                     ` Jeff Garzik
2000-11-17 16:47                       ` Linus Torvalds
2000-11-17 16:49                         ` David Woodhouse
2000-11-17 20:01                         ` David Hinds
2000-11-17 16:43                     ` David Woodhouse
2000-11-17 20:30                   ` 2.4's internal PCMCIA works for me (was Re: [PATCH] pcmcia event thread) Barry K. Nathan
2000-11-17 21:07                     ` David Hinds
2000-11-18  9:55                   ` [PATCH] pcmcia event thread. (fwd) David Ford
2000-11-18 16:03                     ` Linus Torvalds
2000-11-18 22:16                       ` David Hinds
2000-11-19  5:32                       ` David Ford
2000-11-19  5:36                         ` Linus Torvalds
2000-11-19  6:30                           ` [FIXED!] " David Ford
2000-11-19  7:03                             ` neighbour table? Andrew Park
2000-11-19  6:57                               ` David Ford
2000-11-19  7:45                                 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2000-11-19 10:40                                   ` David Ford
2000-11-16 13:40       ` [PATCH] pcmcia event thread. (fwd) Alan Cox
2000-11-15  0:01   ` Russell King

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