Stephen, Did you mean that the #255 limit is set in 2.4 Kernel, not > bridge-utility? I am wondering why there is such limit, > performance-related, or...? If I have to modify kernel 2.4 to exceed the > limit, can you tell me where I should look at? Any drawback if I increase > the limit up to 6000? > > Many thanks > > > From: bridge-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:bridge-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stephen Hemminger > Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 6:06 PM > To: Hai Wang > Cc: bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [Bridge] Bridge question > > On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 17:16:45 -0500 > Hai Wang <u2.ireland@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Do you know why it is impossible to add more than #254 interfaces on > a > > bridge, why we need such a limit, how it can be exceeded? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Regards! > > You can have up 1023 interfaces with 2.6. I didn't want to change the > 2.4 > code, only critical bug fixes get backported. > > -- > Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx> > OSDL http://developer.osdl.org/~shemminger > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/bridge/attachments/20051103/de0ddc57/attachment.htm
