Bug 4070 - Neighbourhood table overflow errors
Summary: Neighbourhood table overflow errors
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: netcfg
Version: 6.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael K. Johnson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-07-16 11:38 UTC by gp
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-09-20 15:06:31 UTC
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Description gp 1999-07-16 11:38:12 UTC 
After changing a client from using DHCP to using a static IP
address using netcfg I had severe errors during the reboot
concerning neighbourhood table overflow errors. Traced it
down to being a badly configured loopback device. The file
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo was found to be
truncated. It looked like this:

ONBOOT=yes

whereas it should look like this:

BOOTPROTO=none  DEVICE=lo
IPADDR=127.0.0.1
NETMASK=255.0.0.0
NETWORK=127.0.0.0
BROADCAST=127.255.255.255
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=none

It appears that netcfg caused this file corruption.
Comment 1 Michael K. Johnson 1999-07-30 21:21:59 UTC 
I don't see how netcfg could have done that.  If you can reproduce
it, I'd like to see the steps you took to do it so that I can make
an attempt to debug it here.  Thanks.
Comment 2 Michael K. Johnson 1999-09-20 15:06:59 UTC 
Anyone who can reproduce this bug, please reopen this bug report
with an explanation of how you did it.  Thanks!
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