From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Ed W <lists@wildgooses.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>,
Simon Chen <simonchennj@gmail.com>,
netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: increase the number of routing tables
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:31:51 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120129163151.416035ef@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F25D52B.1050701@wildgooses.com>
On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:24:27 +0000
Ed W <lists@wildgooses.com> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-30 0:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-29 2:20 increase the number of routing tables Simon Chen
2012-01-29 2:23 ` Simon Chen
2012-01-29 11:50 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-01-29 23:24 ` Ed W
2012-01-30 0:31 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2012-01-30 2:02 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-01-30 16:14 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-01-30 18:57 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-01-30 19:21 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-01-29 2:41 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-01-29 2:46 ` Ben Greear
2012-01-29 4:20 ` Simon Chen
2012-01-29 19:26 ` Ben Greear
2012-01-31 3:06 ` Simon Chen
2012-01-29 21:02 ` David Miller
2012-01-29 21:01 ` David Miller
2012-01-30 17:26 ` Ben Greear
2012-01-30 17:36 ` David Miller
2012-01-30 12:25 ` Thomas Graf
2012-01-30 12:44 ` Eric Dumazet
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