Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 14:58:18 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: davo@katy.apana.org.au (Dave Edwards) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interface problem Message-ID: <199606070528.OAA21467@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199606061421.XAA10602@katy.apana.org.au> from "Dave Edwards" at Jun 6, 96 11:51:38 pm
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Dave Edwards stands accused of saying: > > Is there some limit set on the number of slip/ppp/tun interfaces > available in 2.1-RELEASE ? Not AFAIK. > User ppp caused a problem at first with "device not configured" > sometimes and "can't find ifindex" at others. We got past that > one with some mods to the ppp code but yesterday, a cslip > connection failed rather strangely. Sliplogin worked ok and > configured the interface (sl8) but I could not get it to come > up. > > "ifconfig -au" did not show sl8 'ifconfig' uses a fixed-size buffer to obtain information from the kernel. With lots of interfaces, the buffer is too small. > We tried twice with the same result. The same person has had no > trouble up till now, and he's got on since. He's using ppp until > I can sort it out. Problem is we rarely get more than 12 > connections at a time so its hard to troubleshoot.. Dummy some on vtys. > Dave Edwards -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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