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From: kevin@corp.sun.com (Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child})
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Subject: Re: Moving to Unix System
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In article <9333@brazos.Rice.edu> smb@ulysses.att.com writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 231, message 10
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>| From:    pearmana@prl.philips.co.uk
>| Subject: Moving to Unix system
>|
>| 1) Is there a limit, either with device files or the kernel, on the number
>|    of remote logins permitted across ethernet?
>
>From a quick glance at the 4.0 source, you're limited to ~64 remote users.
>The telnet and rlogin daemons only look for 64 ptys.

This limit is 256 in SunOS 4.1, as  /dev/ptyp[pqrstuvwxyzPQRST][0-f] is
the search list.  Since these are now clone devices, the only (soon to
change) limitation is the minor device number as far as the future is
concerned. 

Kevin Sheehan
Sun Microsystems
kevin@sun.com