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Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 12:49:17 +0100
From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To: "mike ndabarasa" <freebsd@nur.ac.rw>
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Subject: Re: Re: how to allow more than 100 simultaneous users
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On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 11:25:38AM +0000, mike ndabarasa wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 11:33:01 +0100
>  Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 10:02:34AM +0000, mike ndabarasa
> > wrote:
> > > 
> > > hello list members,
> > > i have a small server for students who need to do their
> > > hands on and i am having problems with the number of
> > > simultaneour connections.
> > > 
> > > they won't go beyond 32 while i need at least a 100!
> > > 
> > > i modified 
> > >  max 256 
> > >    and
> > >  pseudo-device pty 256
> > > 
> > > but can't still go beyond 32 connections.
> > > 
> > > who can help ?
> > 
> > Did you also create the new ptys or did you just enable
> > them in the kernel?
> > To create them do the following:
> > 
> > cd /dev
> > sh ./MAKEDEV pty0
> > sh ./MAKEDEV pty1
> > sh ./MAKEDEV pty2
> > sh ./MAKEDEV pty3
> > sh ./MAKEDEV pty4
> > sh ./MAKEDEV pty5
> > sh ./MAKEDEV pty6
> > sh ./MAKEDEV pty7
> > 
> > 
> > After that you should have 256 ptys available.
> > (Each of those invocations create 32 ptys in /dev)
> > 
> 
> 
> i did only enable!
> didn't do the sh ./MAKEDEV ptyx
> 
> before i do it i can see i have from ptyp0 to ptypv.
> 
> will i say 
> 
> sh ./MAKEDEV ptypw
> .
> .
> .
> sh ./MAKEDEV ptypz
> 
> 
> what comes after ptypz ?

You should invoke MAKEDEV exactly as I showed above.

Those commands will create ptyXY where X is one of pqrsPQRS
and Y is one of 0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuv
All in all 8 sets of 32 ptys each for a total of 256 ptys.


-- 
<Insert your favourite quote here.>
Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se


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