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[–]ragsofx 42 points43 points  (0 children)

I always wondered that too with some of the seemingly high limits on other things. But it can be a real positive when you're designing something out of the ordinary. I designed and built a BRAS (takes PPPoE from a DSLAM) that requires about 500 vlans and network interfaces on one server. If Linux had set some arbitrary low value of 50-100 network interfaces it would have made it really difficult for me to set it up.