netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH 00/29] net: VRF support

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Date:	Mon, 9 Feb 2015 11:30:53 +0000
From:	Derek Fawcus <dfawcus@...cade.com>
To:	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
CC:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>,
	roopa <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>, <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
	Dinesh Dutt <ddutt@...ulusnetworks.com>,
	"Vipin Kumar" <vipin@...ulusnetworks.com>,
	Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/29] net: VRF support

On Sun, Feb 08, 2015 at 05:36:05pm -0700, David Ahern wrote:
> To make an L3 separation efficient from a large scale* perspective one
> needs to give up something
[snip]
> 
> * scale here meaning VRFs from 1 to N, N for current products goes up to
> 4000, though I know of that has mentioned 16k VRFs.

FWIW - There is at least one router vendor which allows for the creation of
       more than 4096 VRFs.  Some of its products have a specific limitation
       which may be less than the architectural maximum.

DF
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