NFS problem- neighbout table overlow

Daris A Nevil dnevil at snmc.com
Wed Sep 27 08:17:41 EST 2000


When you see the "neighbour table overflow" message it simply means that
NFS cannot communicate with the server.  It could mean anything from a
bad cable, invalid IP setup, bad driver, incorrect driver setup, etc.
It really means that you are not successfully transporting IP packets.

Regards,
Daris Nevil


"Dan A. Dickey" wrote:
>
> Navin Boppuri wrote:
> > Hello Everyone,
> > I have been having problems with my custom board. The NFS mount does
> > not
> > work. The NFS request does not actually go the server. I dont see any
> > packets coming to the server from this board. I did have some ring
> > dump
> > problems. There were some errors in Port A setting which I fixed and
> > that is
> > gone now. By I still see 'neighbour table overflow' messages. What can
> > be
> > the problem?
>
> Navin,
> I can't say that I remember for sure - but I seem to recall
> this as being a problem in the Linux NFS implementation.
> Check through the linux-kernel archives for messages regarding
> the neighbour table overflow.  There may be a suggestion
> on how to solve this.  I know I remember something about this...
>         -Dan
>

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