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From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Subject: Scaling the Number of Network Interfaces on Linux
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 12:15:55 +0100
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David, Roopa,

to follow your talk at nedev11, I already proposed some times ago a patch to
remove sysctl, which was rejected. You can see the thread here:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/285840

Instead of removing completly the sysctl entries, another idea could be to
manage a group of interfaces which will share the same subtree.


Regards,
Nicolas