On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 23:45 -0700, Andrreas Moschos wrote: > i try to start up 1300 openvpnv clients under Opensolaris snv_111b (xeon) but > cannot open more than 20 (0-19) interfaces using "tun" device, after this i > get the error: > Can't assign new interface: Invalid argument (errno=22) > > What is quite strange is that for interface tun20 i get this one: > Can't assign new interface: File exists (errno=17) > > Ifconfig confirms that the last tun interface is tun19 and "ifconfig tun19 > unplumb" (just for the case) fails normally complaining that there is no such > an interface. > > The driver is 64bit version and installed after these instructions > http://atechnicaljourney.blogspot.com/2008/10/howto-get-tuntap-compile-for-x64.html. > Is there any tuning i could do to increase the number of the tun interfaces > or this sounds something like a bug with the tun driver under snv_111b ?
This sounds like a problem with the tun driver, as I know of no other interfaces have such strange limitations or bugs. -Seb _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
