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4 <page title="Debian Tips">
6 <h1 align=center>Mysterious 'neighbour table overflow'</h1>
10 <p>Networking After upgrading from potato to woody I noticed a couple
11 of 'neighbour table overflow' messages on the screen during the next
12 boot process. If it wouldn't be the laptop I wouldn't have
13 noticed. Thes messages seemed even slowing down the boot process with
14 regard to some related NFS problem. A little investigation has shown
15 that the lo device (i.e. 127.0.0.1) was missing. Believe me, the
16 output of ifconfig looked strange, only eth0 was there, quite
17 irritating. For some strange reason that device wasn't initialized at
20 A quick glance prooved that there was no
21 <code>/etc/init.d/network</code> file anymore so one had to stick with
22 /etc/network. The file <code>/etc/network/interfaces</code> ought to
23 contain all net devices that were to be initialized at boot time. lo
27 # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)
29 # The loopback interface
30 iface lo inet loopback
33 A friend told me that a second line for the lo-interface was missing
34 that would actually set it up at boot time. Looks like the semantics
35 of that file was changed from potato to woody without scripts taking
36 proper care of it. The proper file looks like:
39 # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)
41 # The loopback interface
42 iface lo inet loopback