Hello,

I seem to have solved my problem. I was working on some driver and while I
was setting up the interrupt stuff, I set up a wrong Interrupt Level, which,
I guess, was being used by the ethernet driver . This messed up the ethernet
driver and so the problems. I apologize to everyone for this. I appreciate
all the answers. I am totally new at writing drivers and hence, the hiccups.

Sincerely,
Navin Boppuri

Hello again,

I forgot to mention something. I sniffed the ethernet packets on the NFS
Server machine. I see that a request comes in from my custom board to the
NFS to the correct IP of the server. The HW Address of the board shows up
correctly, but the HW Address of the Server in the request shows up an 0.

ARP:
Request from:
211.111.21.41 -->  08:09:87:l0:73:16      // ethernet info of the custom
board
211.111.21.43 -->  00:00:00:00:00:00     // ethernet info of the nfs

server

Does this look like some ARP problem? I am not sure about that since my

TFTP

request for the zImage works just fine and the arp tables in the server

show

up the board info correctly.

Any ideas?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Hallinan" <redacted>
To: <redacted>
Cc: <redacted>
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 12:46 PM
Subject: RE: Neighbour Table Overflow on NFS Server

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Can't say I know exactly what it means (internally to the
kernel/driver) but we ALWAYS get this message when the
Ethernet cable is disconnected.  I would suspect physical
connections: check your cable,hub, etc.  In our experience,
it seems to indicate that the Ethernet driver is incapable
of completing transmit operations.

-Chris Hallinan

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
[mailto:owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org]On Behalf
Of Mark S. Mathews
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 1:03 AM
To: Cal Erickson
Cc: Navin Boppuri; linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Neighbour Table Overflow on NFS Server


I may be completely off-base here, but I seem to recall
getting some of
these a long time ago.  At the time I think it was cause by
a lack of a
loopback device and routes.

-Mark

On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Cal Erickson wrote:

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Navin,
 The message "neighbour table overflow" is the result of

some

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changes to the IP stack software in Linux version 2.2.x +.

This

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simply means that you are unable to connect to your NFS
server.  It may be related to the driver, but it may also

be

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related to other issues, such as NFS server not running or
incorrectly installed, no physical connectivity to NFS

server,

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etc.  Check the configuration of your NFS server and IP
network before diving into the driver.

Cal Erickson

Navin Boppuri wrote:

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Hello,

I have been debugging my custom 823 board. I have an NFS

Server setup on

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which my kernel on the board mounts. I have using this

server without any

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problems for more than a month. All of the sudden, my

NFS Server complains

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of "Neighbour Table overflow" . The NFS Server was not

modified, nor

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restarted. The error also says that the Server returned

error -5.  Can

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someone suggest any remedy for this problem?

Sincerely,
Navin Boppuri

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Mark S. Mathews

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