Re: bridge and maximum MAC entries

From: Iasen Kostov (tbyte_at_OTEL.net)
Date: 11/25/04

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    Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 19:07:29 +0200
To: Iasen Kostov <tbyte@OTEL.net>

    Iasen Kostov wrote:

    > Hi,
    > if I understand next code correctly maximum number of MACs is bound to
    > maximum number of ports ?!?. Why is that ?
    > code from net/bridge.c:
    > c[n_clusters].my_macs = (struct bdg_addr *)
    > malloc(BDG_MAX_PORTS * sizeof(struct bdg_addr),
    > M_IFADDR, M_NOWAIT | M_ZERO);
    >
    > The best will be to allocate MAC entries dynamically. But there should
    > be at least another definition for
    > maximum MACs for port something like BDG_MAX_MACS ... which could be
    > set at compile time because the current
    > situation doesn't make sense at least for me or possibly I
    > misunderstand something.
    >
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        Sorry for the noise. I really misunderstud things here.

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