Re: Sub-interfaces



On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 02:38:47PM +0200, Jon Otterholm wrote:
Hi.

I am designing a new network and one way to go is to configure a router
based on FreeBSD with one IF/customer. This would mean around 1000
VLAN-IF's/router - would this work? Do you see any problems with this?

1000 vlan interfaces will work fine. In all the stable branches (and
releases) the vlans will be in a linked list, this can be slower as the
list increases in size. In CURRENT this is now a hash list and you can
optimise it even more by defining VLAN_ARRAY which will directly
dereference the tag->ifnet.


Andrew
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