Hi,
> I remeber there being some sort of issue with large number of
> interfaces, however I think it was trivial to fix and may have
> already been.
Actually no; at least not in 4.2-R. See the following PR:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=11525
Those issues weren't exactly related to performance (bandwidth),
but they can cause a lot of network functions (rpc, mrouted, etc.)
to either not working correctly, or not working at all when you
have dynamically attached Ethernet interfaces (PCMCIA NICs) plus
a lot ( > 32) of virtual interfaces (gif, tun).
> Sorry if this isn't so helpful, but I can't remeber
> anyone recently popping up and complaining about the perf with
> lotsa NICs in machine.
We emailed a follow-up to the list a few months back regarding the
PR, but didn't hear anything. Guess people don't use that many gifs
in their notebooks. :-)
yushun.
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