Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 08:17:25 +1200 From: Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org> To: Jon Otterholm <jon.otterholm@ide.resurscentrum.se> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sub-interfaces Message-ID: <20060412201725.GA42102@heff.fud.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <443CF4D7.1030204@ide.resurscentrum.se> References: <443CF4D7.1030204@ide.resurscentrum.se>
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On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 02:38:47PM +0200, Jon Otterholm wrote: > Hi. > > I am designing a new network and one way to go is to configure a router > based on FreeBSD with one IF/customer. This would mean around 1000 > VLAN-IF's/router - would this work? Do you see any problems with this? 1000 vlan interfaces will work fine. In all the stable branches (and releases) the vlans will be in a linked list, this can be slower as the list increases in size. In CURRENT this is now a hash list and you can optimise it even more by defining VLAN_ARRAY which will directly dereference the tag->ifnet. Andrew
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