From owner-freebsd-net Mon Jun 28 19:25:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from rip.ops.neosoft.com (rip.ops.NeoSoft.COM [206.109.4.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F07E714C23 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 19:25:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from awsmith@rip.ops.neosoft.com) Received: (from awsmith@localhost) by rip.ops.neosoft.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id VAA14735 for freebsd-net@freebsd.org; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 21:24:47 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from awsmith) From: "Andrew W. Smith" Message-Id: <199906290224.VAA14735@rip.ops.neosoft.com> Subject: 16 bit int for interface "reference count" To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 21:24:47 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org From the NANOG list ... has this been patched in FreeBSD before I again start pumping a full table into one of my boxen? --------------- Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 09:29:50 +0100 From: Peter Galbavy Subject: Re: The Cidr Report On the subject of the general number of routes increasing, has everyone involved in the development or maintainence of their routers checked that the 2^16 (65536) limit is not going to hit them. I know that for those using PC routers, like my old colleagues at Demon, it is important that you make sure that your OS is upgraded to use a >16 bit int for a "reference count" to an interface. Andrew Bangs @ Demon spotted this a while back and submitted patch to the *BSD groups, of which I know OpenBSD has changed the reference count to a 32 bit. Once you add some IGP routes the 2^16 is coming up fast. On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 12:00:02PM -0700, Tony Bates wrote: > 0) General Status > > Table History > ------------- > > Date Prefixes > 180699 60164 > 190699 60219 > 200699 60266 > 210699 60373 > 220699 60763 > 230699 60904 > 240699 61044 > 250699 61068 - -- Peter Galbavy Knowledge Matters Ltd http://www.knowledge.com/ ---------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Andrew W. Smith ** awsmith@neosoft.com ** Chief Network Engineer ** ** http://www.neosoft.com/neosoft/staff/andrew ** 1-888-NEOSOFT ** ** "Opportunities multiply as they are seized" - Sun Tzu ** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message