From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 29 04:44:41 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4E6716A426 for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 04:44:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2C5343D1F for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 04:44:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E81765EE8; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 00:44:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 25489-02; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 00:44:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-54-113.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.54.113]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00A7D5E39; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 00:44:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42C2272F.6090501@mac.com> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 00:44:31 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Olivier Nicole References: <20050628153611.GA1019@yoafrica.com> <42C185E2.50005@mac.com> <200506290126.j5T1QJO3011113@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> In-Reply-To: <200506290126.j5T1QJO3011113@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org, john@yoafrica.com Subject: Re: Interface aliases X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 04:44:42 -0000 Olivier Nicole wrote: >> 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. There exist some exceptions to the generalization above. You've mentioned a possibility, although I would also seriously question whether a single webserver with hundreds or thousands of distinct SSL sites on it is really a good idea. -- -Chuck