From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 6 7:44:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.intop.net (smtp.intop.net [206.156.254.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB87D37B503 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 07:44:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from charlie (iwkcpe.intop.net [208.149.79.30]) by smtp.intop.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA03272; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 09:45:45 -0500 Message-Id: <200010061445.JAA03272@smtp.intop.net> From: "Charlie Schloemer" To: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" , Joel Faison Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 09:47:45 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: MULTIPLE IP's ON THE SAME NIC In-reply-to: <6144645CB88AD411A65400104B598D5D053D@CSCNT-BDC> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12a) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message