Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 03:17:37 +0000 From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> To: isp@freebsd.org Cc: patl@phoenix.volant.org Subject: Re: Virtual hosts: IP aliases on de0 or lo0 ? Message-ID: <E121LEX-0008dM-00@fanf.eng.demon.net> In-Reply-To: <ML-3.4.945981954.1201.patl@asimov.phoenix.volant.org>
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patl@phoenix.volant.org wrote: > >What are the relative merits of putting the IP aliases on the >network interface (de0) as versus the loopback interface (lo0) ? You save arps by using the loopback interface; I don't know of any disadvantages beyond requiring marginally more complicated routing. >Would there be any benefits at all to creating additional >loopback interfaces instead of aliasing? (I suspect not; but >would like to hear from someone more knowlegable about why.) No. If your virtual hosts have their own CIDR block allocation of IP addresses then the patch in PR#12071 improves performance and managability. Tony. -- dot it at To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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