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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Ifconfig alias- limits? Date: 14 Dec 1995 06:54:26 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 12 Message-ID: <4aohn2$3hc@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <DJ2HsD.DFw@ritz.mordor.com> <4a4okl$f1@buffnet2.buffnet.net> <818451011.18285@kiss.demon.co.uk> <DJKByK.AM9@rci.ripco.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <DJKByK.AM9@rci.ripco.com>, David Richards <dr@ripco.com> wrote: >Under NetBSD, after I add more than ~30 aliases to a single NIC, the system >becomes unstable. > >Is there a similar limitation in FreeBSD 2.1? If so, is there a tunable >parameter somewhere to increase the limit? From everything I've heard, there is no such limitation in FreeBSD. I know that a number of ISPs are using Apache and the IP alias mechanism to support many dozens of customers. Jordan