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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: IFCONFIG Question
Date: 31 Oct 1995 11:29:16 +0100
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Randy Berdan <randy@spsp.com> wrote:

>Does anyone know if there is an upper limit to the number of
>interfaces that you can configure using ifconfig alias.  ie. how many
>times can I do this for my one real ethernet card?

This is only limited by the speed impact caused by the alias chain.
-- 
cheers, J"org

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