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Re: [Openvpn-users] Urgent: Limitation to 100 virtual tunnel dev ices??


  • Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] Urgent: Limitation to 100 virtual tunnel dev ices??
  • From: Torge Szczepanek <openvpn-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 09:40:37 +0200

On Friday 02 July 2004 23:08, you wrote:

> I'm checking into this thread late, so I'm not sure if this has already
> been discussed, but what about using the OpenVPN 2.0 features to multiplex
> a large number of clients though a single tun interface?

No. This has nothing to do with the 2.0 feature. The limitation is in the 
kernel, when using more than 100 different tun interfaces and not one single 
tun like in 2.0.

You simply cannot allocate more than 100 network devices of the same kind 
under Linux 2.4 (tunx, ethx or pppx for example).