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


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