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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gumby!andrews-cc!gillham From: gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Virtual Interface drivers Date: 15 Sep 1995 18:32:02 GMT Organization: Andrews University Lines: 26 Message-ID: <43cgr2$e4p@orion.cc.andrews.edu> References: <439ovt$gcs@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> <43at6h$8bv@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> <43cfvh$5sl@cynic.portal.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: edmund.cs.andrews.edu In article <43cfvh$5sl@cynic.portal.ca> curt@portal.ca (Curt Sampson) writes: > >What's the problem with ifconfig alias? From looking at the code, >the limit on the number of addresses you can have is based on kernel >malloc memory alone. I've heard from people with 235 addresses or so >on an interface. I think this was my fault.. :) I mentioned ifconfig alias to him in e-mail and that I _didn't know_ if it supported more than one alias, but that I knew for sure that 2 ip addresses on an inteface worked. >I've got a dozen or so addresses (for virtual web servers) on my ed0, and >it works all right. Perhaps a nice concise example? 'man ifconfig' doesn't really explain alias well, and perhaps implies only one alias. To me at least, the 'Establish _an_ addition network _address_...' is singular. Also, the delete option isn't very concise, and has no example. (i.e. is it 'ifconfig ed0 alias x.x.x.x delete', or ifconfig ed0 delete..) -Andrew -- ============================ Real 32bit multi-tasking UN*X System Andrew Gillham | TCP/IP,NFS,PPP,4.4BSD-lite,multi-user gillham@andrews.edu | i386,sparc,alpha,mac68k,amiga,others LAN/WAN/NW/UN*X specialist | ---> http://www.NetBSD.org <---