Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 13:16:18 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: John Oxley <john@yoafrica.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interface aliases Message-ID: <42C185E2.50005@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20050628153611.GA1019@yoafrica.com> References: <20050628153611.GA1019@yoafrica.com>
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John Oxley wrote: > I know that I can put at least 65,000 aliases on an interface using > ifconfig alias. What kind of affect does this have on the system load > wise? Benchmark it yourself, it will depend on your hardware and your workload. As a general rule, you should have one IP per NIC. Putting thousands of IP addresses on a single box is a misuse of limited IP space, unless you are using RFC-1918 addresses. What is the actual problem you are trying to solve? -- -Chuck
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