On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Michael Fissel wrote: > Does anyone know of a limit to the number of IP addresses that a nic card > can have before another is required or is it just a function of how much > traffic the card has to handle? The number of IP addresses on one interface in kernel 2.2.x is only limited by physical memory as far as I can tell. In a test I was able to assign over 7000 numbers to one eth - worked without problems, only ifconfig took nearly 10 minutes to get me a list (old 233mhz machine with suse 6.4 and suse kernel 2.2.14) c'ya sven -- The Internet treats censorship as a routing problem, and routes around it. (John Gilmore on http://www.cygnus.com/~gnu/) - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
