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Subject: Re: Interface problem
To: davo@katy.apana.org.au (Dave Edwards)
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 14:58:18 +0930 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <199606061421.XAA10602@katy.apana.org.au> from "Dave Edwards" at Jun 6, 96 11:51:38 pm
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Dave Edwards stands accused of saying:
> 
> Is there some limit set on the number of slip/ppp/tun interfaces
> available in 2.1-RELEASE ?

Not AFAIK.

> User ppp caused a problem at first with "device not configured"
> sometimes and "can't find ifindex" at others.  We got past that
> one with some mods to the ppp code but yesterday, a cslip
> connection failed rather strangely.  Sliplogin worked ok and
> configured the interface (sl8) but I could not get it to come
> up.
> 
> "ifconfig -au"    did not show sl8

'ifconfig' uses a fixed-size buffer to obtain information from the
kernel.  With lots of interfaces, the buffer is too small.

> We tried twice with the same result.  The same person has had no
> trouble up till now, and he's got on since.  He's using ppp until
> I can sort it out.  Problem is we rarely get more than 12
> connections at a time so its hard to troubleshoot..

Dummy some on vtys.

> Dave Edwards  	           

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