On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 09:30:26AM +0200, Sergey Popovich wrote: > ?? ???????????? ???? 5 ???????????? 2013 15:19:20 ???????????????????????? > Bryan Duff ??????????????: > > Any reason why the max route table is limited to 256 and not the Linux > > limit of 32767? > > > > This is a BIRD kernel protocol implementation limitation. This limitation > comes from old kernel versions where table id represented in rtnetlink > protocol message structure as "unsigned char" (8 bits long, 256 values max). > > Modern Linux kernels has support for 4294967295 table ids, implemented > as rtnetlink attribute RTA_TABLE with 32 bit length.
Hello Thanks for the thorough overview, i was not aware of RTA_TABLE attribute. -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Ondrej 'SanTiago' Zajicek (email: santi...@crfreenet.org) OpenPGP encrypted e-mails preferred (KeyID 0x11DEADC3, wwwkeys.pgp.net) "To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so."
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