From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Ritesh Majumdar <ritesh@proxim.com>
Cc: bridge@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [Bridge] Please help me to know MAX Forwarding Table Size in Linux Bridge
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 15:58:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080529155819.7bce2324@extreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1E3D081C7B502B4A988F643E604CF96305610E@INDEXCH.corp.proxim.com>
On Wed, 28 May 2008 23:03:29 -0700
"Ritesh Majumdar" <ritesh@proxim.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Thanks for putting such a nice document in net on Linux bridge. actually
> I am working on integrating Linux bridge module with embedded OS which
> is running Linux. It is very important for me to know maximum number of
> MAC addresses Linux bridge can hold (I am using kernel 2.6.20).my
> requirement is about 10000 MAC addresses learning capacity in forwarding
> table.
>
> Is it possible for kernel to learn 10000 MAC addresses ...??
>
> Hope someone will help me out with this, after looking through web over
> two days I couldn't find any solution yet.
>
> Many Thanks,
> Ritesh.
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The only limitation is kernel memory, so 10000 doesn't seem that large.
Easy enough to test it and find out (using a script or various DoS tests).
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2008-05-29 6:03 [Bridge] Please help me to know MAX Forwarding Table Size in Linux Bridge Ritesh Majumdar
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