Re: [CentOS] Linux Kernel Physical Interface Limit

2010-07-15 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 7/14/10, William Warren hescomins...@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com wrote: On 7/14/2010 1:16 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: Googling up a really old 2005 newsgroup thread says some people had 24 physical NIC (6x 4quad) in a system before and one person vaguely remembers a hard 256 limit

Re: [CentOS] Linux Kernel Physical Interface Limit

2010-07-14 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Eero Volotinen Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 8:58 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Linux Kernel Physical Interface Limit 2010/7/14 William Warren hescomins

Re: [CentOS] Linux Kernel Physical Interface Limit

2010-07-14 Thread Tim Nelson
- Brian T. Brunner bbrun...@gai-tronics.com wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Eero Volotinen Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 8:58 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Linux Kernel Physical

Re: [CentOS] Linux Kernel Physical Interface Limit

2010-07-14 Thread William Warren
On 7/14/2010 1:16 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: On 7/14/10, William Warrenhescomins...@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com wrote: ok let me specify. Is there any real limit? I've seen some folks(and been told by a few) that you can't more than 10 physical interfaces in a linux system.

Re: [CentOS] Linux Kernel Physical Interface Limit

2010-07-14 Thread Tim Nelson
- Brian T. Brunner bbrun...@gai-tronics.com wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Eero Volotinen Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 8:58 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Linux Kernel Physical

Re: [CentOS] Linux Kernel Physical Interface Limit

2010-07-14 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
] On Behalf Of Tim Nelson Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 10:35 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Linux Kernel Physical Interface Limit - Brian T. Brunner bbrun...@gai-tronics.com wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun

Re: [CentOS] Linux Kernel Physical Interface Limit

2010-07-14 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 09:51:51AM -0500, Tim Nelson wrote: Even if the limit were lower, such as 10 physical interfaces as mentioned before, I have to imagine that the host system would have issues dealing with the number of interrupts needed to *PROPERLY* service all of those interfaces in

Re: [CentOS] Linux Kernel Physical Interface Limit

2010-07-14 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 07/14/2010 08:17 AM, Whit Blauvelt wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 09:51:51AM -0500, Tim Nelson wrote: Even if the limit were lower, such as 10 physical interfaces as mentioned before, I have to imagine that the host system would have issues dealing with the number of interrupts needed

Re: [CentOS] Linux Kernel Physical Interface Limit

2010-07-14 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 08:52:02AM -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote: Filed some bug reports, and it was evident from the response that very, very few Linux users ever go 4 eth's on a system. Thus the lack of properly debugged IPv6 support for that then. Fortunately I don't (yet) need IPv6.

Re: [CentOS] Linux Kernel Physical Interface Limit

2010-07-14 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 08:52 -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote: I've got six machines with 6 Gb interfaces (two on motherboard, 4 on a card) right now (the design called for 3 bonded pairs on separate nets for redundancy). I haven't tried IPV6 on them. I had 'issues' with bonding and VMs

Re: [CentOS] Linux Kernel Physical Interface Limit

2010-07-14 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 07/14/2010 10:30 AM, JohnS wrote: On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 08:52 -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote: I've got six machines with 6 Gb interfaces (two on motherboard, 4 on a card) right now (the design called for 3 bonded pairs on separate nets for redundancy). I haven't tried IPV6 on them. I

Re: [CentOS] Linux Kernel Physical Interface Limit

2010-07-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/13/2010 05:51 PM, William Warren wrote: I think it's baloney mainly because i can't find a mention of it anywhere. Is there REALLY a limit on the number of physical network interfaces in the Kernel? Most of the limits on the number of any device come from the major/minor numbers on

Re: [CentOS] Linux Kernel Physical Interface Limit

2010-07-13 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/7/14 William Warren hescomins...@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com:  I think it's baloney mainly because i can't find a mention of it anywhere.  Is there REALLY a limit on the number of physical network interfaces in the Kernel? can you really create hardware with huge number or real

Re: [CentOS] Linux Kernel Physical Interface Limit

2010-07-13 Thread Ross Walker
On Jul 13, 2010, at 8:58 PM, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fi wrote: 2010/7/14 William Warren hescomins...@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com: I think it's baloney mainly because i can't find a mention of it anywhere. Is there REALLY a limit on the number of physical network interfaces in

Re: [CentOS] Linux Kernel Physical Interface Limit

2010-07-13 Thread William Warren
On 7/13/2010 9:11 PM, Ross Walker wrote: On Jul 13, 2010, at 8:58 PM, Eero Volotineneero.voloti...@iki.fi wrote: 2010/7/14 William Warrenhescomins...@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com: I think it's baloney mainly because i can't find a mention of it anywhere. Is there REALLY a limit on the

Re: [CentOS] Linux Kernel Physical Interface Limit

2010-07-13 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 7/14/10, William Warren hescomins...@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com wrote: ok let me specify. Is there any real limit? I've seen some folks(and been told by a few) that you can't more than 10 physical interfaces in a linux system. Googling up a really old 2005 newsgroup thread says some