On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:12:19AM +0530, Indunil Jayasooriya
alleged:> Hi,
>
> I am getting below error on mailgw. it has 2 ethernets.
> eth0 is connected to internet, while eth1 is connected to LAN where
> there are about 300 PCs.
>
>
> Mar 12 09:14:00 gateway kernel: NET: 697 messages suppressed.
> Mar 12 09:14:00 gateway kernel: Neighbour table overflow.
> Mar 12 09:14:05 gateway kernel: NET: 660 messages suppressed.
> Mar 12 09:14:05 gateway kernel: Neighbour table overflow.
> Mar 12 09:14:10 gateway kernel: NET: 682 messages suppressed.
> Mar 12 09:14:10 gateway kernel: Neighbour table overflow.
> Mar 12 09:14:15 gateway kernel: NET: 700 messages suppressed.
> Mar 12 09:14:15 gateway kernel: Neighbour table overflow.
>
> Mar 12 09:14:20 gateway kernel: NET: 633 messages suppressed.
> Mar 12 09:14:20 gateway kernel: Neighbour table overflow.
>
>
> it happens very often. I goolgled and found some info.
>
> many talk about below file
>
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/default/gc_thresh1
>
> I increased its value to 300
>
> But, i still get the same error.
The "default" is only applied to devices as they come up. You'll
need to also
increase the values in the interface-specific directories.
Be sure to also adjust your /etc/sysctl.conf because manually playing in /proc
won't survive a reboot.
In my very large flat network, I have the following in /etc/sysctl.conf:
net.ipv4.neigh.default.gc_thresh1 = 4096
net.ipv4.neigh.default.gc_thresh2 = 8192
net.ipv4.neigh.default.gc_thresh3 = 8192
net.ipv4.neigh.default.base_reachable_time = 86400
net.ipv4.neigh.default.gc_stale_time = 86400
These are documented in arp(7).
--
Garrick Staples, GNU/Linux HPCC SysAdmin
University of Southern California
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