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From: "Babar Kazmi" <BabarKazmi@Hotmail.Com>
Subject: Re: tunneling and iptables
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 18:55:12 +0500
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Dear 

I would just like to know if kernel can handle 2000 logical interfaces, 
If some know can comment about this I would be thankful.

Regards 

Babar Kazmi


 > but with my design I will have around 2000~  tunnels created (i know 
 > this sounds crazy).. will the kernel be able to handle this or is this 
 > too much of an overhead .... leaving aside the start up overhead, 
 > during the actual forwarding is there any overhead besides the extra 
 > ip header being attached.... 
>