Mental on Mon, 8 Nov 1999 17:43:39 -0500 (EST)


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Re: [Plug] Has anybody ever seen this message?


If I might add, some searches on deja.com and google.com may turn up
some discussions about it. Its a place to start.



Mental
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On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Chris Fearnley wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 04:05:23PM -0500, Charles Stack wrote:
> > Kernel: NET: xxx messages supressed.
> > neighbour table overflow
> > 
> > Where xxx keeps changing (usually around 230+).
> > 
> > This is the second time I've encountered this message.  Each time it
> > happend, the Linux box goes nuts writing this message to console
> > (overwriting anything else in its path).  The only way to stop it was to
> > pull the network cables from the machine.
> 
> Or shutting off klogd.
> 
> > Even rebooting doesn't stop it...only yanking of the network cables.  I
> > should mention that this machine is an internet gateway and configured for
> > IP Masqarade to 10.0.0.x.
> > 
> > I'm getting the idea that an improperly configured workstation is flooding
> > the network with packets while printing....but I'm not sure.
> > 
> > Please...if you know the cause of this error...please enlighten me!!!
> 
> net/ipv4/route.c
> 
> It sounds like a fun debugging problem.  The type that makes my blood
> boil!  I'd start in the kernel's Documentation/networking directory and
> make judicious use of intuition and experience :)
> 
> Then again it could be something simple like running a misconfigured
> routd that is going berserk.
> 
> Good luck with it.
> 
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