Hello,
I have one veb interface in OpenBSD 7.2 and 5 ethernet ports are paired
with this veb. As I understand from the ifconfig output, 4096 mac address
cache values can be kept in this veb interface .
ifconfig veb10
veb10: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
index 12 llprio 3
groups: veb
em3 flags=3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>
port 4 ifpriority 0 ifcost 0
em0 flags=3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>
port 1 ifpriority 0 ifcost 0
em1 flags=3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>
port 2 ifpriority 0 ifcost 0
ix3 flags=3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>
port 8 ifpriority 0 ifcost 0
ix2 flags=3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>
port 7 ifpriority 0 ifcost 0
Addresses (max cache: 4096, timeout: 240):
2c:f0:5d:73:f8:c4 em1 0 flags=0<>
....
When I tried to extend this limit value with the command "ifconfig veb10
maxaddr 4097", I got the following error message:
"ifconfig: veb10: Invalid argument"
The maximum value I can give without this error message is 4096. Isn't this
value a bit narrow?
I have tested that the mac addresses of the connected devices are not
recorded in the veb interface after exceeding the limit.
I want to switch from Cisco device to OpenBSD in a place where there are
more than 8 thousand MAC addresses, but I need to exceed this max cache
size value.
How can I increase this max cache size value 8192 or higher value?
Thank you in advance for your interest.
