[Bridge] Re: Limitation in virtual bridge number

Fermín Galán fgalan at teleline.es
Sun Apr 4 10:58:02 PDT 2004


>> My question is due to certain tests that I have
>> performed, the number of virtual bridges cann't be
>> greater than 32. Triying to add the 33rd bridge
>> with 'brctl addbr' works, but causes the removal
>> of the oldest one (the first in the 'brctl show' list):
>> the number of existing virtual bridges is never
>> more than 32.
>
>There were two hard limits, first the command was limited.
>The new bridge-utils 0.9.7 should fix that.  Second, there
>was a kernel limit of 64 which was because of not wanting to
>allocate a lot of memory.  That is now removed in 2.6.5 (post -rc3)
>and I tested with 300+ bridges.

Linux kernel 2.6.5 has been released today, but when the 0.9.7
release of bridge-utils will be released? (in
http://bridge.sourceforge.net/download.html
the last release available for download is 0.9.6)

Thanks!

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Fermín




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