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Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:37:04 +0100
From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@incunabulum.net>
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Subject: getifaddrs() scalability
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Just off the top of my head...
=2E..has anyone run into problems with the scalability of this call?

One of the XORP users needs to create =BB1000 interfaces in Linux, and I'=
m=20
wondering if any FreeBSD users need to create that amount of network=20
interfaces.

As such the getifaddrs() call is likely to get slow in that scenario, as =

it uses a linked list.

cheers
BMS