Telnet limit /dev/pts/0-2048

[Bill Warner]

Does anyone know if this is high/average/low compared to the numbers on
other unixes?

Mainly wondering about AIX.  That looks like our only other option to
move to.

Thanks
Bill

On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 13:52, Matt Alexander wrote:
> Hmm...  you may be stuck at 2048...
> http://people.redhat.com/alikins/system_tuning.html#pty
> 
> 
> On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Matt Alexander wrote:
> 
> > If you've got a spare box to test on, you could try increasing the
> > MAX_NR_CONSOLES in tty.h for your kernel and then recompiling.
> > ~M
> >
> >
> > On 17 Sep 2002, Bill Warner wrote:
> >
> > > It seems the kernel has a limit on the Unix98 ptys to 2048.  We have
> a
> > > server that needs to have ~3000 telnet sessions running due to
> tripling
> > > capacity.  Is there any way to get this many telnet sessions into a
> > > linux box?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Bill
> > >
> > > PS I know the bad parts of using telnet.  There has been great care
> > > taken to restrict users to a single application and there is only
> > > minimal chance of getting any more access from a standard username
> and
> > > password.
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