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From: curt@portal.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Virtual Interface drivers
Date: 15 Sep 1995 11:17:21 -0700
Organization: Internet Portal Services, Ltd.
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In article <43at6h$8bv@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au>,
Keith Smith  <keith@papillon.sd.monash.edu.au> wrote:
>Btw, 'multiple' IP's means something like 12, not 2 :)  It seems the 'ifconfig
>alias' option isn't suitable for me.  Does anyone know how I could have up to
>12 IP's configured on one box (short of having 12 ethernet/slip links in
>there)?

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've got a dozen or so addresses (for virtual web servers) on my ed0, and
it works all right.

cjs
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Curt Sampson    curt@portal.ca		Info at http://www.portal.ca/
Internet Portal Services, Inc.	
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