Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 16:40:43 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Spengler <mks@networkcs.com> To: pauls@ieng.com (Paul Southworth) Cc: mks@networkcs.com, freebsd-atm@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.0 ATM - more logical interfaces? Message-ID: <199904292140.QAA74112@us.networkcs.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.IENG.4.02.9904291729520.12867-100000@home.ieng.com> from Paul Southworth at "Apr 29, 99 05:34:05 pm"
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Paul Southworth said: > > On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Mike Spengler wrote: > > :Well, I can get you up to 256 network interfaces pretty easily with a couple > :of small patches. The first patch is for the atm command and is already > :in FreeBSD 3.1. The second will require a kernel recompile and is a fix > :that I will commit to the current/stable code. > > I patched my 3.0 '/sbin/atm' and kernel as you recommended. Now it > appears to work up to exactly 100 network interfaces: > > fraud# atm set netif hea0 atm 100 > fraud# ifconfig atm99 > atm99: flags=43<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING> mtu 9180 > ether 00:20:ea:00:cc:26 > fraud# atm set netif hea0 atm 101 > atm: ioctl (AIOCSET) set NIF: Cannot allocate memory > > Perhaps there's something else that also needs tweaking? > The second patch that I sent, updating sys/dev/hea/eni_globals.c, needs to be applied and then a new kernel compiled and installed. -- Mike Spengler Network Computing Services, Inc. Email: mks@networkcs.com 1200 Washington Ave. So. Phone: +1 612 337 3557 Minneapolis MN 55415 FAX: +1 612 337 3400 (aka Minnesota Supercomputer Center) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-atm" in the body of the message
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