From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
To: Damien Millescamps <damien.millescamps@6wind.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org,
"Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Octavian Purdila <tavi@cs.pub.ro>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: v6: faster tree-based sysctl implementation
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 13:42:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111206184229.GD22987@kvack.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EDE470D.3070808@6wind.com>
On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 05:47:09PM +0100, Damien Millescamps wrote:
> A use-case for wanting to be able to create several interfaces is to
> have a "tunnel" server handling several dynamic point to point connections.
I can chime in that this is also an issue for edge routers terminating
lots of PPPoE, L2TP or even DHCP sessions. Interfaces numbering in the
thousands or tens of thousands are common for 1G or 10G worth of bandwidth
aggregation.
-ben
--
"Thought is the essence of where you are now."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-06 18:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-05 7:55 v6: faster tree-based sysctl implementation Lucian Adrian Grijincu
2011-12-06 14:11 ` Anca Emanuel
2011-12-06 14:33 ` Lucian Adrian Grijincu
2011-12-06 16:47 ` Damien Millescamps
2011-12-06 18:42 ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2011-12-06 23:42 ` Anca Emanuel
2011-12-07 0:08 ` Anca Emanuel
2011-12-07 1:44 ` Lucian Adrian Grijincu
2011-12-08 0:19 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-12-16 8:15 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-12-18 8:05 ` Eric W. Biederman
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