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From: brian@ui-gate.utell.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: mass multiple IPs?
Date: 14 Feb 1997 11:34:24 GMT
Organization: Utell International
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Brian Scott (brian@tierranet.com) wrote:
: We have a client that's looking for 1500+ IP addresses bound to the same card.
: Is there a theoretical maximum number of IPs that a single FreeBSD installation
: can support? Any forseeable problems or performance loss? Anyone have experience
: with this amount of IPs?
You may see some performance degradation.... AFAIK, the interface
addresses are held in a doubly-linked-list.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <brian@utell.co.uk> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !