On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 11:54:21PM +0100, Lars Bonnesen wrote: > How many physical NICs can you add to an OpenBSD host (vmx) > > I am asking because I am running an OpenBSD on a VMware host but apparently > OpenBSD can only see 8 of them. > > Can I raise the limit somehow? > > Regards, Lars.
The network interface count limited to (USHRT_MAX - 1). -1 is because the interface index 0 is the special case. Of course, you have another limits caused by memory allocation for interface data, but 8 is too small. It seems the limit you reached caused by vmware.