As mentioned by someone else, I too use it frequently for NAT firewalls, which is probably one of the most common uses of linux right now, especially given LRP, Gibraltar, and embedded routers that it's being used in right now. Cheers, Liam On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 11:27, erich@uruk.org wrote: > > Are there common uses of large numbers of IP aliases anymore? (say more > than 4/16 for failover or conglomerating a few DNS/FTP servers whose > addresses are known)? > > It was commonly used for virtual web servers for a while, but newer > HTTP protocol has a way of handling it which is in common use now, so > I understand that is rather deprecated. > > Thanks! > > -- > Erich Stefan Boleyn <erich@uruk.org> http://www.uruk.org/ > "Reality is truly stranger than fiction; Probably why fiction is so popular" > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
