On Sat, 05 Jan 2002, David Jardine wrote: > 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. > line...) when I installed woody from a CD a couple of weeks > ago. (I reverted to potato for this and other reasons.)
I give it a 90% probability of the messages have being caused by your loopback interface not being brought up properly... sometimes upgrades from potato screw up on the lo interface. > 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? Simple standalone machines still need the loopback interface for the default X configuration to work properly (and for a lot of other software to work properly as well). The message seems to be printed by net/ipv4/route.c (in kernel 2.4.17, at least). My guess is that the code does not like a machine with no ipv4 interfaces at all, and outputs this message if one tries use them somehow (such as a bind() to 0.0.0.0, or to 127.0.0.1...) -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
