On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 02:48:43AM +0200, Sven Koch wrote: > 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) The 10 minutes were probably caused by the name resolver in ifconfig. Try ifconfig -n -Andi - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
