From: Theo Buehler <tb@theobuehler.org>
Subject: Re: bgpd: better limit for add-path send
To: tech@openbsd.org
Date: Tue, 12 May 2026 10:48:28 +0200

On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 10:40:56AM +0200, Claudio Jeker wrote:
> Using USHRT_MAX as the maximum for add-path send plus and max is bad.
> Such high limits make simply no sense and also trigger an issue in the
> add-path path where currently a limit of 2000 paths is enforced.
> On top of this the add-path send code scales linearly with the number of
> paths it has to handle. So you really don't want to go too high with that
> number. Because of this I selected a maximum of 100 and we can discuss to
> adjust this if there is need.
> 
> To blast out all paths use 'add-path send all'. That is unlimited.

ok tb