On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 04:03:58PM +0300, Anton Alin-Adrian wrote: > Hi guys. > > Can anyone tell me what is the limit for how many IP aliases can be setup > on the same ethernet card? > > Is there a global limit for the total number of aliases in the OS? > > To be clear: one needs 128 IPs (for irc vhosts) to be setup on one server. > Is that impossible?
Addresses are attached to an interface in a linked list so there may be some inefficenies, but I don't see any reason why 128 IPs shouldn't work. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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