On Monday 2012-01-30 17:14, Stephen Hemminger wrote: >> >> > There are 2147483647. >> >> >> >> Any reason why it's not an unsigned 32bit int? (surely there is a corner >> >> case where this is useful...) >> > >> >The 8 bit value is enshrined in the API for 'struct rtmsg' and therefore >> >increasing it would break existing applications. >> >> Actually, what Ed (and me too) was wondering about was: >> >> why does `ip route show table $[0x80000000]` not print an empty table, >> i.e. where is it that some code uses int/s32 during parsing of >> the argument and/or the RTA_TABLE attribute? > >There are lots of places internally in ip utilities that use u32 >for route table. But the route input/output message format is still limited >to 8 bits. But then, adding a rule to table 258 would make it show up in table 2 as well, which is not the case. -- 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
