Re: max rdomain limit 255

Stuart Henderson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.misc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2026-06-08, Claudio Jeker <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Example: rdomain 50, vport50, veb50. This logical naming works great for
>> readability everywhere.
>> The interface numbering can already scale well beyond 255. Would there
>> be any appetite to grow the rdomain limit to at least a 16bit field?
>
> This is a dumb reason that wastes memory. When creating rdomain 50 the
> system will allocate 48 unused slots. Which may be ok but then someone
> comes up with rdomain 4000 for vlan4000.

I've seen some switch that did this with vlan numbers too...
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