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From: dr@ripco.com (David Richards)
Subject: Ifconfig alias- limits?
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>>: ifconfig ep0 inet new.ip.address alias netmask 0xffffffff
>
>I have about 10 aliases IP's on my FBSD box and CAN ping all of them
>from that box !!!!


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?

				Thanks,

				Dave

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