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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
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References: <DJ2HsD.DFw@ritz.mordor.com> <4a4okl$f1@buffnet2.buffnet.net> <818451011.18285@kiss.demon.co.uk> <DJKByK.AM9@rci.ripco.com>
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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