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From: "Fermín Galán" <fgalan@teleline.es>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: bridge@osdl.org
Subject: [Bridge] Re: Limitation in virtual bridge number
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 19:58:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <005801c41a6e$61161b60$0100a8c0@kastrup> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20040401150031.0cc87cb8@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net

>> My question is due to certain tests that I have
>> performed, the number of virtual bridges cann't be
>> greater than 32. Triying to add the 33rd bridge
>> with 'brctl addbr' works, but causes the removal
>> of the oldest one (the first in the 'brctl show' list):
>> the number of existing virtual bridges is never
>> more than 32.
>
>There were two hard limits, first the command was limited.
>The new bridge-utils 0.9.7 should fix that.  Second, there
>was a kernel limit of 64 which was because of not wanting to
>allocate a lot of memory.  That is now removed in 2.6.5 (post -rc3)
>and I tested with 300+ bridges.

Linux kernel 2.6.5 has been released today, but when the 0.9.7
release of bridge-utils will be released? (in
http://bridge.sourceforge.net/download.html
the last release available for download is 0.9.6)

Thanks!

-------
Fermín


      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-04-04 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-27 16:10 [Bridge] Limitation in virtual bridge number Fermín Galán
2004-03-29 18:23 ` Bart De Schuymer
     [not found] ` <20040401150031.0cc87cb8@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net>
2004-04-04 17:58   ` Fermín Galán [this message]

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