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From: roberto@eurocontrol.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: mass multiple IPs?
Date: 13 Feb 1997 14:52:10 GMT
Organization: Eurocontrol EEC, Bretigny, France
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In article <3303939b.44257125@192.168.0.1>, Brian Scott <None> 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?
I remember someone in the FreeBSD mailing lists saying he has configured
far more than this number of IP aliases. I don't think there is any limit
(except you memory).
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