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by TrainedMonkey 4217 days ago
I recently had to disable ipv6 because my router started freaking out about "neighbor table overflow". Some kind of issue between Asus and Comcast.
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revasm 4217 days ago
This error is caused by a bug[1] present on outdated versions of Linux (typically exhibited by DD-WRT and Tomato routers) and can also be fixed by upgrading to OpenWRT.

Or, if that is not an option, by creating an ip6tables rule:

  ip6tables -A PREROUTING -t mangle -p icmpv6 --icmpv6-type neighbor-solicitation -i `nvram get wan0_ifname` -d ff02::1:ff00:0/104 -j DROP
Or you can experiment with the ARP cache limits:

  sysctl net.ipv6.neigh.default.gc_thresh1=256
  sysctl net.ipv6.neigh.default.gc_thresh2=512
  sysctl net.ipv6.neigh.default.gc_thresh3=1024
[1] http://serverfault.com/a/461053
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TrainedMonkey 4213 days ago
I will try that, thanks!
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