On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Jeff McAdams wrote:

> If I remember correctly...and I haven't look in a while, the 100 limit
> is a hard limit on the number of ppp interfaces that the kernel will
> create.  I don't think you can work around this with the "unit"
> parameter, either,

Actually, you can.  The 100 limit is a kludge because the algorithm for
finding a "free" interface name has O(n) performance, so the authors
arbitrarily decided that 100 interfaces was "enough" to search through.

--
David.

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