On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 01:33:15PM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'm trying to install Debian on a rather old computer. During > installation I'm getting "neighbour table overflow" messages. > What do these mean and are they serious? The installatiion seems to > continue regardless.
It usually means that the loopback interface is not up. Can you ping 127.0.0.1? If not, you should check /etc/network/interfaces and make sure that it contains: auto lo iface lo inet loopback Then you should probably run ifup eth0. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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