From owner-freebsd-security Mon Oct 9 16:16:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (tun.AwfulHak.org [194.242.139.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B61C237B66F for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 16:16:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e99NFKB34879; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 00:15:20 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.11.1/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e99NFJs13675; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 00:15:19 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200010092315.e99NFJs13675@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: John F Cuzzola Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD tun device In-Reply-To: Message from John F Cuzzola of "Mon, 09 Oct 2000 11:00:12 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 00:15:19 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Hello everyone, > I'm setting up VPN's using the pipsecd port. I know I probably should be > using KAME/racoon but pipsecd is easy to set-up and the same software > works with Linux boxes- again making things easier. My question is: Since > pipsecd requires the tun device is there a limit to the number of tunnel > devices FreeBSD will handle? I recall one day someone having a problem > with more than 9 tunnel devices and I thought I would ask. I've had ppp running in multilink mode with 200 links being established simultaneously (creating 200 server processes, each with their own tun device 'till they figure out what's going on). Hopefully, that number can now be increased to virtually any number (since tonights fd_set fix). So in short, no. > Thank-you, > > John C. -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message