[Bridge] Neighbour table overflow
Christopher E. Cramer
chris.cramer at duke.edu
Tue Jan 4 12:30:53 PST 2005
we've had similar issues on a large scanning machine. nothing like trying
to keep 100,000 entries in your arp cache.
try the following (at least under redhat w/ 2.4 kernels):
echo 100000 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/default/gc_thresh3
this will increase the max size of the neighbor table to 100000
-c
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Christopher E. Cramer, Ph.D.
Information Technology Security Officer
Duke University, Office of Information Technology
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, WL Siew wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had successfully setup my bridge (br0) but after few minutes the br0
> interface seems not working.
>
> ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0
> ifconfig eth5 0.0.0.0
>
> brctl addbr br0
>
> brctl addif br0 eth0
> brctl addif br0 eth5
>
> brctl stp br0 on
>
> I check on my system's /var/log/syslog file. It shows something strange
> messages as below: -
>
> Jan 2 10:44:22 fw01 kernel: ipt_tcpmss_target: bad length (64 bytes)
> Jan 2 10:44:32 fw01 last message repeated 11 times
> Jan 2 12:27:08 fw01 kernel: Neighbour table overflow.
> Jan 2 12:27:11 fw01 last message repeated 9 times
> Jan 2 12:27:13 fw01 kernel: NET: 10 messages suppressed.
>
> I unplug the network cable connected to the eth5 and run a ping to my
> router...the network is up again...I am able to ping my router.
>
> Then, I plug the network cable to the eth5 interface again...I run the
> ping to my router and suddenly I can't ping my router. The same error
> messages pops out in the /var/log/syslog file.
>
> How can I solve this issue?
>
> Regards,
> ro0ot
>
>
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