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supernova4040
09-16-2003, 09:33 PM
Sep 17 11:23:48 blackhole kernel: NET: 265 messages suppressed.
Sep 17 11:23:48 blackhole kernel: Neighbour table overflow.

This is the error message i keep geting, i have no idea what it means and the only way i know to stop it is to stop one of my network cards(eth0). Could someone please help explain this message to me?

Thanks...
Satanic Atheist
09-16-2003, 09:38 PM
Simply Googling for "network table overflow" gave loads of replies.

Try this (http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue65/tag/12.html) one.

James
bosox79
09-16-2003, 09:54 PM
Originally posted by supernova4040
Sep 17 11:23:48 blackhole kernel: NET: 265 messages suppressed.
Sep 17 11:23:48 blackhole kernel: Neighbour table overflow.

This is the error message i keep geting, i have no idea what it means and the only way i know to stop it is to stop one of my network cards(eth0). Could someone please help explain this message to me?

Thanks...

ye as like Satanic Atheist said try a G4L search on the error you are getting? when does the error messege show up? when did it first appear?:)
JohnT
09-16-2003, 10:32 PM
http://linux-ip.net/html/routing-rpdb.html
supernova4040
09-18-2003, 03:10 AM
It's shown up in /var/log/messages. It is also very intermitent it sometimes it just keeps showing that message and sometimes it dosnt show it for as long time :(

I have no idea when it first showed up al though i think it was about the time that my windows box was having a few networking troubles(like always).
JohnT
09-18-2003, 05:52 PM
Your using a firewall I assume?
supernova4040
09-19-2003, 01:59 AM
Yeah i use the shorewall firewall. Would this maybe be part of the problem?
JohnT
09-19-2003, 09:12 AM
Originally posted by supernova4040
Yeah i use the shorewall firewall. Would this maybe be part of the problem?


That not an error message. Its a report of incoming packets dropped. Do a google for "black-hole " and "firewalls" and you'll get a better understanding. Don't use shorewall, so I cant advise how to turn off notification.
supernova4040
09-19-2003, 08:55 PM
well thanks for that JohnT. I fiddled with shorewall for a bit and it seems to have stoped reporting the message.