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From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: minor patch to ppp's route.c
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 06:53:12 -0500 (CDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199608020409.NAA28419@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Aug 2, 96 01:39:55 pm
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> Just for the sake of ISP's using the user-mode ppp for large numbers of
> clients, it would be good to patch route.c :
> 
> int
> GetIfIndex(name)
> char *name;
> {
>   struct ifreq *ifrp;
>   int s, len, elen, index;
>   struct ifconf ifconfs;
>   struct ifreq reqbuf[32];
> 
> and change 32 to something higher (at ~2 per interface, this runs out of 
> steam at about 15 interfaces).

I believe I posted a suggestion once to raise this to something like 1024
:-)  which I had done on several boxes.

... JG