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Re: [Plug] Has anybody ever seen this message?
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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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"you make insanity respectable."
--Helcat on the subject of Mental.
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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