Re: PRoblems with mounting the root

[Phil Davis <pmd@azad.demon.co.uk>]

On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 04:33:16PM +0200, d.zinzius@eyenet.de wrote:
[...]
> i have a small problem with mounting the root over nfs....
> my dc gets an IP adress an an kernel... after starting the kernel in the
> mounting process I get the error message
> 
> neighbour table overflow

I get this error but it does not seem to stop anything from working. I
am using kernel 2.2.14 on a PC-Chips M741LMRT mobo with davicom nic.

> and then portmap on server xxx.xx.xxx.xxx not responding....
> 
> the portmapper on the server is running and the ip address is allowed to
> access portmapper....
> 
> does anybody know a solution??

run tcpdump on the server to check that the client is actually attempting
to talk to the portmapper and (if it is) check that the replies look
ok.


-- 
Phil
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