[oclug] Help: neighbour table overflow

[pmaheral at igs.net]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 smoynes at nexus.carleton.ca wrote:
> Not knowing your distribution, it's hard to say, but I assume you are
> talking about debian. There was a bad package uploaded to unstable a

Yup, its debian.  I mentioned the distribution in the original message,
but forgot to put it in the new one.

> few days ago. net-tools is broken, and if you can downgrade to an
> older version of net-tools. I have 1.57-1 which is in woody, and it
> works as expected. If you have another computer that can get on the
> internet download that package and just put it on a floppy or
> something. This should fix the problem.

I managed to get around the problem by recompiling my kernel with ipv6
support.  With the ipv6 module loaded, ifconfig works as expected.

Thanks for the info, I thought I was going (more?) insane.

Later,
Patrick