Re: IP Alias Limit

Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Sat, 21 Sep 1996 14:37:47 +0100 (BST)


> is to show a "manager" that Linux can scale to something FreeBSD can do.
> It has not been easy to explain why there is an arbitrary limit placed on
> the number of open FD's, since I don't know the answer.

Binary compatibility is the answer. You can build the C library without
the default 256 limit if you want.

Alan