Subject: Re: Scaling the Number of Network Interfaces on Linux

From: Nicolas Dichtel <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 16:12:45 +0100

Le 10/02/2016 12:59, David Ahern a écrit :
> On 2/10/16 12:15 PM, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
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>> Instead of removing completly the sysctl entries, another idea could be to
>> manage a group of interfaces which will share the same subtree.
>
> This come out from a side conversation as well -- for example to have interfaces
> enslaved to a bridge or bond share the same devconf.
It could also be interesting to have another way to group interfaces. For
example, group all ppp interfaces.

>
> This is certainly possible to do and I can give it a look. The key point is that
> we clearly need a means to lighten the overhead of a network interface.
Yes, I agree.