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Date:      Fri, 6 Oct 2000 09:47:45 -0500
From:      "Charlie Schloemer" <charlie@infoworks.net>
To:        "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, Joel Faison <jfaison@csc-consulting.com>
Subject:   Re: MULTIPLE IP's ON THE SAME NIC
Message-ID:  <200010061445.JAA03272@smtp.intop.net>
In-Reply-To: <6144645CB88AD411A65400104B598D5D053D@CSCNT-BDC>

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On 6 Oct 00, at 10:46, Joel Faison wrote:

> Apologies if this question should have been directed to the newbie list...
> 
> How do you assign multiple IP addresses to the same NIC and what is the
> limit of IPs that can be assigned to one physical NIC?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> JT
> 
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You can use the 'alias' option of ifconfig.  man ifconfig will have all 
the details.  AFAIK, there's no limit to how many addresses you 
can bind to a single card, but performance could begin to suffer.

-charlie



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