Limit on kernel table number

Ondrej Zajicek santiago at crfreenet.org
Mon Aug 25 08:52:08 CEST 2014


On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 01:30:30AM +0200, Alexander Demenshin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It seems that there is a limit on maximum kernel table number (in kernel
> protocol),
> in particular I couldn't use number 1000 while this is perfectly acceptable
> by the Linux kernel.
> 
> Is there any specific reason for this limitation?

Hi

Yes, BIRD uses older kernel API, which limits kernel table number to 255.
This is also assumed in some other parts of BIRD code.

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