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Re: How to enable more than ~256 routing tables?

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Subject: Re: How to enable more than ~256 routing tables?
From: Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 00:45:39 -0700
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YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ???? wrote:
In article <3EA4EAFD.5020808@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (at Tue, 22 Apr 2003 00:10:53 -0700), 
Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> says:


Is it possible to just change the RT_TABLE_MAX to be higher and have 256-????
be more /* User defined values */ ?


No. rtm_table in rtmsg{} is unsigned char.

Thanks for the response...but I was definately hoping for some better news!

I'm guesing that to change this would mean at least a recompile of
the user-space 'ip' utility, (and who knows what else!)

Why o why did someone think that 256 was all anyone would ever want!

Think we could at least increase this to 16 bits for 2.5?

Ben

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