On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, CYWare wrote:
> i noticed that the maximum "ls /dev/*ppp*" number of ppp sessions is set to
> 64. is there anyway to increase this number?
>
if you meant asynchrounous ppp sessions (like dialup), then ppp interfaces
dont rely on device files but on dynamically allocated kernel data
structures. for each ppp interface, there is an interface number id which
is a signed integer (4 bytes). so ppp sessions max out at 2 billion or
until you run out of RAM available to hold extra ppp data structures.
but if you really meant /dev/ippp*, refer to devices.txt on the kernel
tarball. since this is a device file, it's upper limit is 256 (because
minor device numbers are 1 byte each). *and* since ippp devices share the
same major device number with some other interface type, the max is
brought down to less than 128. you will need to use 'mknod' to make ippp
device file interfaces from ippp64 upto ippp254 (if that is even
recognized by the kernel.)
pong
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