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

[Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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