Dear Sir or Madam: I just wondered how many interfaces at most can be added into one Linux Bridge. Thanks! Best Regards, Chris -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/bridge/attachments/20070704/f0da70b2/attachment.htm
On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 11:28:22 +0800 "Chris-BROWAN" <chris.xiong@browan.com> wrote:> Dear Sir or Madam: > > > > I just wondered how many interfaces at most can be added into one Linux > Bridge. >There is a limit of 1024 (in recent 2.6 versions). The limit is because the Spanning Tree Protocol only has 16 bits for port id and priority. Originally, the split was 8/8 but by making it 6/10 there is more room for ports and less for priority. -- Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>