From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 15 5:19: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2FAC37B400 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 05:18:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from penfold.noc.clara.net (penfold.noc.clara.net [195.8.70.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C3BC43E4A for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 05:18:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andyf@penfold.noc.clara.net) Received: from andyf by penfold.noc.clara.net with local (Exim 4.01) id 17fJaa-0008Vm-00 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 13:18:56 +0100 Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 13:18:56 +0100 From: Andy Furnell To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: maximum number of gif devices? Message-ID: <20020815121856.GQ21169@penfold.noc.clara.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-NCC-RegID: uk.claranet Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi there, I'm using a FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE to provide IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnels to users, and am getting concerned that I'm going to hit some sort of limit wrt either entries in the /dev filesystem, or entries in the ifindex. I've currently got about 450 interfaces created, and the box seems to be handling everything nicely :) Does anyone have any ideas what this limit (if there is one :) might be? Obviously I can keep on creating gif devices until the kernel panics (or however it would choose to deal with this), but it might be nice to have some forewarning. Any answers would be most appreciated :) Andy -- Andy Furnell andy@ipng.org.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message