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On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Robin Hunt wrote:

> What is the maximum number of aliased ip addressed (ie ipconfig
> alias...) that freebsd supports? 

Lots.  Named will give you headaches first, however; it will run out of
file resources, so when you run it you'll have to do 'ulimit' (in *csh)
before running named. 

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major