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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.ultranet.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail 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 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 12 Message-ID: <474tps$boe@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <473a48$lhi@news.inc.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)