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From: brian@tierranet.com (Brian Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: mass multiple IPs?
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 04:13:30 GMT
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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?


Thanks,

Dan