Moving to Unix System

[Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child}]

In article <9333 at brazos.Rice.edu> smb at ulysses.att.com writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 231, message 10
>
>| From:    pearmana at 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 at sun.com