while arguing routing with a friend of mine, we got to the point where the number of interfaces on a router was a point of contention. now certainly routing depends not only on the number of interfaces a router has, but also on the number of next-hop gateways it need to keep track of. that said, i'd like to just ask: what's the largest number of interfaces anyone has on any of their routers? i was arguing that high end routes would probably have maybe a few hundred. my friend was arguing in terms of theoretical limits and thought it was more like tens of thousands. max interfaces? max next-hop gateways? thanks. -- |-----< "CODE WARRIOR" >-----| codewarrior@daemon.org * "ah! i see you have the internet twofsonet@graffiti.com (Andrew Brown) that goes *ping*!" andrew@crossbar.com * "information is power -- share the wealth."