On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:24:27 +0000 Ed W <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 29/01/2012 11:50, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Sunday 2012-01-29 03:23, Simon Chen wrote: > > > >> Hey folks, > >> > >> To my limited knowledge, Linux currently supports 256 (255?) routing > >> tables defined in /etc/iproute2/rt_tables. > > There are 2147483647. > > > > Any reason why it's not an unsigned 32bit int? (surely there is a corner > case where this is useful...) > > Ed W The 8 bit value is enshrined in the API for 'struct rtmsg' and therefore increasing it would break existing applications. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
