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From: "Noor Dawod" <noor@comrax.com>
To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>,
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Subject: RE: Max number of NIC's and aliases
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 12:45:11 +0200
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And what about the aliases? How many aliases can FreeBSD or a NIC
handle?

Noor


-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Mittelstaedt [mailto:tedm@toybox.placo.com]
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 12:25 PM
To: Noor Dawod; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: RE: Max number of NIC's and aliases


No to both - but consider the speed of the average PCI bus.  Your not
going
to be able to keep a bunch of NICS in saturation on a PC, espically
100Mbt
full duplex ones.

Ted Mittelstaedt
tedm@toybox.placo.com
Author of:                           The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's
Guide
Book website:
http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com


>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Noor Dawod
>Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 4:40 AM
>To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>Subject: Max number of NIC's and aliases
>
>
>Hi,
>
>I have two questions to the list:
>
>1) is there a known number of NIC's that FreeBSD cannot handle anymore?
>2) is there a known number of aliases on one NIC that FreeBSD cannot
>handle anymore?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Noor
>
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