Best way for an app to accept traffic on 30,000+ interfaces?

2013-03-20 Thread Mark D
(Hopefully this isn't too out-of-scope for this list..) I have an application in mind that I'd like to have accept/respond to UDP queries sent to perhaps 30K contiguous IP addresses (most likely IPV6 addresses because such ranges are easy to come by, but conceptually ipv4 as well). This would all

Re: Best way for an app to accept traffic on 30,000+ interfaces?

2013-03-20 Thread Mark D
On 20Mar13, Juli Mallett allegedly wrote: > Well, the easiest thing is to add 30k aliases to your Ethernet > interface (you may hit a limit, not sure) and then just listen on > INADDR_ANY (or the IP6 equivalent), assuming you don't mind listening > to other addresses you have configured as well. T