Re: Limit on Alias

2011-01-23 Thread Henning Brauer
* Adam M. Dutko [2011-01-22 19:09]: > > give it up. you obviously have no idea what you're talking about. an > > ifaddr is tiny. > > So what is the base size of one? you can do your homework yourself, really. it is tiny. > Can you elaborate how it grows over time based on various levels of > tr

Re: Limit on Alias

2011-01-22 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
"Adam M. Dutko" writes: >> give it up. you obviously have no idea what you're talking about. an >> ifaddr is tiny. > > So what is the base size of one? Can you elaborate how it grows over > time based on various levels of traffic? grep in your /usr/src/sys for '.h files containing "struct ifadd

Re: Limit on Alias

2011-01-22 Thread Adam M. Dutko
> give it up. you obviously have no idea what you're talking about. an > ifaddr is tiny. So what is the base size of one? Can you elaborate how it grows over time based on various levels of traffic?

Re: Limit on Alias

2011-01-22 Thread Henning Brauer
* Adam M. Dutko [2011-01-22 00:00]: > > Hahaha. > > I don't understand the humor. > > > I've had over 300k addresses on a single interface in a test environment > > before. > > Very cool, so it was a test environment. Did you roll it to > production? How well did it work? > > > Like Henning

Re: Limit on Alias

2011-01-21 Thread Adam M. Dutko
> Hahaha. I don't understand the humor. > I've had over 300k addresses on a single interface in a test environment > before. Very cool, so it was a test environment. Did you roll it to production? How well did it work? > Like Henning said, the limit is memory. I imagine memory would be a big

Re: Limit on Alias

2011-01-21 Thread Henning Brauer
* Benny Lofgren [2011-01-21 19:33]: > On 2011-01-21 18.42, Peter Hessler wrote: > > On 2011 Jan 21 (Fri) at 09:51:52 -0500 (-0500), Adam M. Dutko wrote: > > :> What it's the limit of number alias that a single ethernet interface can > > :> support? > > : > > :I believe 254? > > Hahaha. > > I've ha

Re: Limit on Alias

2011-01-21 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2011-01-21 18.42, Peter Hessler wrote: > On 2011 Jan 21 (Fri) at 09:51:52 -0500 (-0500), Adam M. Dutko wrote: > :> What it's the limit of number alias that a single ethernet interface can > :> support? > : > :I believe 254? > Hahaha. > I've had over 300k addresses on a single interface in a test

Re: Limit on Alias

2011-01-21 Thread Peter Hessler
On 2011 Jan 21 (Fri) at 09:51:52 -0500 (-0500), Adam M. Dutko wrote: :> What it's the limit of number alias that a single ethernet interface can :> support? : :I believe 254? : Hahaha. I've had over 300k addresses on a single interface in a test environment before. Like Henning said, the limit i

Re: Limit on Alias

2011-01-21 Thread Adam M. Dutko
> What it's the limit of number alias that a single ethernet interface can > support? I believe 254?

Re: Limit on Alias

2011-01-21 Thread Henning Brauer
* Orestes Leal R. [2011-01-21 15:50]: > What it's the limit of number alias that a single ethernet interface > can support? memory. -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Ro