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From: Ed W <lists@wildgooses.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Simon Chen <simonchennj@gmail.com>, netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: increase the number of routing tables
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:24:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F25D52B.1050701@wildgooses.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1201291245001.1201@frira.zrqbmnf.qr>

On 29/01/2012 11:50, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Sunday 2012-01-29 03:23, Simon Chen wrote:
>
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> To my limited knowledge, Linux currently supports 256 (255?) routing
>> tables defined in /etc/iproute2/rt_tables.
> There are 2147483647.
>

Any reason why it's not an unsigned 32bit int? (surely there is a corner 
case where this is useful...)

Ed W

  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-29 23:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CANj2EbfR0cBaBd+t1yCZyErRpVzSC00DZohvtyazK8_9bv2aEQ@mail.gmail.com>
2012-01-29  2:23 ` increase the number of routing tables Simon Chen
2012-01-29 11:50   ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-01-29 23:24     ` Ed W [this message]
2012-01-30  0:31       ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-01-30  2:02         ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-01-30 16:14           ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-01-30 18:57             ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-01-30 19:21               ` Stephen Hemminger

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