On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 05:18:51PM +0100, Horsnell T. wrote:

> I've been having the same problem, and mailed the netfilter
> list some time ago for help, but no luck.
> The message comes from linux-2.4.18/net/ipv4/route.c
> and is due to a failure of the arp_bind_neighbour routine
> in linux-2.4.18/net/ipv4/arp.c.
> This seems to call __neigh_lookup_errno, but I cant find
> the source-code for this (I'm not a kernel hacker so
> I'm probably doing something stupid here).
> However, there are some vars in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/
> which may be relevant. On my machine, eth0/proxy_qlen 
> eth1/proxy_qlen and default/proxy_qlen were all set to
> 64. I've tried increasing these, but I dont know whether
> that works on a running system, or whether a reboot is
> needed, and I dont want to reboot my firewall unless absolutely
> nesessary. Maybe if you have a chance to play with these, you
> could let me know the result. I also dont know the significance
> of the default/proxy_qlen value .

Doesn't 'proxy' imply the proxy arp functionality? Are you
doing proxy arp for any of your internal hosts?

Ramin

> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Terry.

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