Gilboa Davara wrote: > Looking at the code (especially, register_net_dev) it seems that there > are two possible limits: > 1. Ethernet device name must not exceed 16 bytes. > 2. Total number of network devices must not exceed 32768. > (const int max_netdevices = 8*PAGE_SIZE in __dev_alloc_name) Forgetting for a moment about virtual devices (including tun, ppp, ...), you now got me busy trying to imagine hardware with 32000 ethernet jacks. :-) -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines