On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 11:18:53 +0200 Roberto Ragusa wrote: > Forgetting for a moment about virtual devices (including tun, ppp, ...), > you now got me busy trying to imagine hardware with 32000 ethernet jacks.
I think in practice it breaks down before that. I seem to recall at work the OS guys were testing a PCI expansion box and filled it up with random cards like NICs, and some versions of the linux kernel had big problems with the algorithms used to enumerate the PCI devices when that many were plugged in (I forget how big the box was, but I'm sure it was smaller than 32000 :-). -- users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
