Limit on kernel table number

Bryan Duff bduff at ecessa.com
Mon Aug 25 15:55:02 CEST 2014


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- -Bryan

On 08/25/2014 01:52 AM, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 01:30:30AM +0200, Alexander Demenshin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> It seems that there is a limit on maximum kernel table number (in kernel
>> protocol),
>> in particular I couldn't use number 1000 while this is perfectly
acceptable
>> by the Linux kernel.
>>
>> Is there any specific reason for this limitation?
>
> Hi
>
> Yes, BIRD uses older kernel API, which limits kernel table number to 255.
> This is also assumed in some other parts of BIRD code.
>

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