Marco C. Coelho wrote:
> Looking into it further an ip route shows:
>
> 64.0.0.0/8 via 64.202.224.1 dev eth0 proto zebra metric 20 equalize
This /8 doesn't affect the neighbor table. There must be a problem on
the site that announce it
>
> So the 64.0.0.0 announce is coming into this box through OSPF (zebra)
>
> The 169.254.0.0/16 is being automajically added through the sysconfig
> network scripts. I'm looking into why.
>
> In either case I still don't see why these entries would make the
> neighbor table overflow. Could it have been the previous fix to the
> hosts file?
Well, when somebody try to make traffic with somebody from
169.254.0.0/16 throught you, your server will ask for arp on eth3, and
most probably will record an <incomplete> entry in arp table. Virii and
others can make this worse. Another quick fix is to drop arps from/to
169.254.0.0/16 with arptables.
>
> mc
>
> Alexandru Dragoi wrote:
>> Marco C. Coelho wrote:
>>
>>> the ip route with a grep for link returns:
>>>
>>> snip** too long
>>> 64.202.227.198 dev ppp436 proto kernel scope link src 10.20.1.1
>>> 64.202.227.196 dev ppp421 proto kernel scope link src 10.20.1.1
>>> 64.202.227.197 dev ppp211 proto kernel scope link src 10.20.0.1
>>> 64.202.227.194 dev ppp13 proto kernel scope link src 10.20.1.1
>>> 64.202.227.192 dev ppp404 proto kernel scope link src 10.20.1.1
>>> 64.202.227.254 dev ppp194 proto kernel scope link src 10.20.1.1
>>> 64.202.227.253 dev ppp130 proto kernel scope link src 10.20.1.1
>>> 64.202.227.252 dev ppp243 proto kernel scope link src 10.20.1.1
>>> 64.202.227.249 dev ppp195 proto kernel scope link src 10.20.1.1
>>> 64.202.227.248 dev ppp254 proto kernel scope link src 10.20.1.1
>>> 64.202.227.247 dev ppp235 proto kernel scope link src 10.20.1.1
>>> 64.202.227.242 dev ppp78 proto kernel scope link src 10.20.1.1
>>> 64.202.227.240 dev ppp328 proto kernel scope link src 10.20.1.1
>>> 64.202.227.237 dev ppp44 proto kernel scope link src 10.20.1.1
>>> 64.202.227.236 dev ppp122 proto kernel scope link src 10.20.1.1
>>> 64.202.227.234 dev ppp316 proto kernel scope link src 10.20.1.1
>>> 64.202.227.232 dev ppp132 proto kernel scope link src 10.20.1.1
>>> 64.202.227.231 dev ppp104 proto kernel scope link src 10.20.0.1
>>> 64.202.227.226 dev ppp179 proto kernel scope link src 10.20.0.1
>>> 64.202.224.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 64.202.224.8
>>> 192.168.1.0/24 dev eth3 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.8
>>> 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth3 scope link
>>>
>>
>> The one above must be deleted, many redhat-like distros attach
>> 169.254.0.0/16.
>>
>>> All the pppoe terminations (pppd) are shown, as well as the last three
>>> subnets. I'll have to see where the 169.254.0.0/16 is coming from?
>>>
>>> mc
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Alexandru Dragoi wrote:
>>>
>>>> Marco C. Coelho wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> This box is doing a lot. It terminates 1000 PPPoE connections,
>>>>> provides traffic shaping using TC/HTB, authenticates all users via
>>>>> Radius. It also runs OSPF routing for the internal network. Looking
>>>>> at a simple route output I see all the PPP connections coming through
>>>>> the box, and due to the OSPF I also see the rest of my network
>>>>> announcements. The only strange things are:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. The last man working on this box had mistakenly edited the hosts
>>>>> file and added the machine name and complete domain name to the local
>>>>> host 127.0.0.1 name. It should only be pointed to the eth0
>>>>> interface. I have changed this.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2. The route output is making an announcement
>>>>>
>>>>> 64.0.0.0 argontech.net 255.0.0.0 UG 20
>>>>> 0 0 eth0
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> This doesn't look dangerous for your problem, I was only talking about
>>>> directly connected networks:
>>>>
>>>> # ip route |grep link
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> My public IP space is a /20 within that space, not the whole Class A.
>>>>> I have not found which box is announcing this within my network yet.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Jeff Welling wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 10/23/07 06:56, Alexandru Dragoi wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What about checking your routing table? you may have link routes
>>>>>>>> for massive subnets (like 85.0.0.0/8 or 140.20.0.0/16). Some
>>>>>>>> programs prefer to use "standard" netmask of classes A and B.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm betting that the OP has other things going on seeing has how
>>>>>>> s/he mentioned PPPoE, which to my knowledge is a layer 2 protocol,
>>>>>>> and thus not subject to typical routing scenarios. In essence the
>>>>>>> OP could have thousands of PPPoE connections terminating on one
>>>>>>> system with the ARP cache having to deal with where to send traffic
>>>>>>> to which MAC address. There is not a lot of room for routing in such
>>>>>>> a scenario.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I agree with Peter's suggestion, arpd. I ran into the neighbor table
>>>>>> overflow problem recently, at the hands of our ISP. I was in the
>>>>>> process of recompiling the kernel and mucking with arpd (I couldn't
>>>>>> get it to run/start properly) when the problem disappeared as quickly
>>>>>> as it showed up. Lucky for me, this was some kind of ISP problem, I
>>>>>> was able to determine that much through `tcpdump -i X -n arpd`.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My 'two cents' is that you try arpd, I did a bit of looking when I
>>>>>> came across that problem and it seemed to be the last ditch effort
>>>>>> when changing the gc threshold had no effect. Wasn't able to confirm
>>>>>> that it worked for sure though.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers.
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