From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 14:00:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 14:00:08 -0500 Received: from amdext.amd.com ([139.95.251.1]:25797 "EHLO amdext.amd.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 13:59:50 -0500 X-Server-Uuid: 02753650-11b0-11d5-bbc5-00508bf987eb Message-ID: <3C447C15.A9673272@cmdmail.amd.com> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 10:59:33 -0800 From: "Amit Gupta" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-3 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Luigi Genoni" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: arpd not working in 2.4.17 or 2.5.1 In-Reply-To: X-WSS-ID: 105AA39C276528-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org But arp>1024 is Very Important, else linux will never be able to talk to more than 1024 clients ! Linux is my favourite and I wonder if this limit will kill linux for the race with Solaris/M$ server market. So pls save me :) and help neighour.c/network layer in new kernel. Thanks in Advance. Luigi Genoni wrote: > Latest kernel I saw working with arpd (user space daemon) I am manteining > is 2.2.16, then from 2.4.4 (for 2.4 series), some changes were done to > kernel so that the kernel does not talk correctly with the device > /dev/arpd anymore. > It is not the first time I write about this on lkml, but it seems none is > interested in manteining the kernel space component for arpd support. > I did some investigation, but the code for arpd support itself inside of > the kernel seems to be ok, something else is wrong with neighour.c. > > So at less I can say the user space daemon works well on 2.2.16 I have > around ;). > > Luigi > > On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Amit Gupta wrote: > > > > > Hi All, > > > > I am running 2.5.1 kernel on a 2 AMD processor system and have enable > > routing messages, netlink and arpd support inside kernel as described in > > arpd docs. > > > > Then after making 36 character devices, when I run arpd, it's starts up > > but always keeps silent (strace) and the kernel also does not keep it's > > 256 arp address limit. > > > > Pls help fix it, I need linux to be able to talk to more than 1024 > > clients. > > > > Thanks in Advance. > > > > Amit > > amit.gupta@amd.com > > > > > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > >