On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 04:22:10PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 04 Jan 2002, Chris Hanson wrote: > > Can someone explain what the error "neighbor table overflow" > > signifies, please? > > ARP cache table full. See arp manpage for more info. > > For some reason or another, if your lo (loopback) interface is down, you are > REALLY likely to receive neighbour table overflow errors from X and other > apps (in Linux, kernel 2.2.x. I don't know about 2.4.x). > I'd been waiting for a reply to Chris's questions because I had this 'neighbor table overflow' message popping up at all sorts of times (during installation, while booting, while viewing a manpage, while entering something on the command line...) when I installed woody from a CD a couple of weeks ago. (I reverted to potato for this and other reasons.)
I looked at the ARP manpage, but it seems to have to do with networks (maybe I'm wrong) and I have a simple standalone machine. Isn't there some other explanation? David
