On Sat, 2005-23-07 at 16:29 +0200, Thomas Graf wrote: > I think we should head for a 16bit ifindex at some point > or is there any reason why 65K interfaces wouldn't be > sufficient? We waste one bit at the moment to have simpler > error handling for all the functions returning indices.
Strange, i didnt see my original email echo back to me. Must be the stupid ISP again. I thought things would work well after we moved to vger. ifindex has to be 32 bit because most management apps (SNMP etc) expect it to be 32 bit. I havent scanned the code but making int actually doesnt seem right - unless some code is expecting it to be a -ve number somewhere; it should be type u32. cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
