From owner-freebsd-net Tue Feb 27 21:41:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from measurement-factory.com (measurement-factory.com [206.168.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FDB037B719 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 21:41:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rousskov@measurement-factory.com) Received: (from rousskov@localhost) by measurement-factory.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA44406; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 22:41:02 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from rousskov) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 22:41:02 -0700 (MST) From: Alex Rousskov To: Tobias Fredriksson Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quick question about IP aliasing In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Tobias Fredriksson wrote: > No you will be able to bind normaly to a.b.c.1, but i have had the > problems where if i specify anything to bind a.b.c.2 and it has bound on > all ip's aliased on the computer. Tobias, I know that I can bind to any (and all) of the 1000+ aliases without any visible problems. We are running thousands of simulated HTTP clients and servers that way, each sending from or listening on its own alias... That is exactly why I am asking for a definitive answer based on how things are implemented in the kernel rather than case studies. Thanks, Alex. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message