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we have used systems with lo0 and lo1
I don't know of any reason it wouldn't work with more..

Jaye Mathisen wrote:
> 
> Just curious.  Had an idea for something, but it would depend on FreeBSD's
> ability to handle a few thousand or so IP's on loopback aliases.