Re: Linux Kernel Physical Interface Limit

[Emmanuel Noobadmin <centos.admin@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/14/10, William Warren <hescominsoon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   On 7/14/2010 1:16 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
>> Googling up a really old 2005 newsgroup thread says some people had 24
>> physical NIC (6x 4quad) in a system before and one person vaguely
>> remembers a hard 256 limit which would make sense if physical
>> interface count is a byte value.
> can you give me a link to that thread?  My googling skills are
> apparently not up to snuff to find that..:)

2001 poster says kernel 2.4 = 16 at least
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.hardware/browse_thread/thread/fbb020bfcc0abd/f25e760b552c9246?pli=1

2005 poster says he's seen 6x quad in a Linux server
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.os.linux.hardware/2005-01/0431.html
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