From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 22 16:24:37 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA00813 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 May 1995 16:24:37 -0700 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA02950 for ; Mon, 22 May 1995 12:24:41 -0700 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.3.6) id AA28257; Mon, 22 May 1995 15:24:16 -0400 Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 15:24:16 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9505221924.AA28257@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Brian Tao Cc: FREEBSD-QUESTIONS-L In-Reply-To: References: Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > How many IP addresses can I assign to a single network interface > under 2.0-950412? I wrote a script to add 57 unused IP addresses from > our class C to the ed1 interface on my FreeBSD box, and it responded > to all of them. What's the limit? 255? Unlimited? You can have as many as you want, but remember that every one you add makes many fundamental packet-processing operations measurably slower... -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant