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Date:      Wed, 29 Jun 2005 08:26:19 +0700 (ICT)
From:      Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>
To:        cswiger@mac.com
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org, john@yoafrica.com
Subject:   Re: Interface aliases
Message-ID:  <200506290126.j5T1QJO3011113@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
In-Reply-To: <42C185E2.50005@mac.com> (message from Chuck Swiger on Tue, 28 Jun 2005 13:16:18 -0400)
References:  <20050628153611.GA1019@yoafrica.com> <42C185E2.50005@mac.com>

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> 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?

That is not true.

As a web hosting company, you may want to have one IP per web site (to
allow SSL for example) but all hosting on a single machine.

Olivier



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