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From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz_lst@tdx.co.uk>
To: Sergey Kandaurov <pluknet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Stacking lots of IP's on a single box - any 'gotchas'?
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--On 31 July 2013 23:47 +0400 Sergey Kandaurov <pluknet@gmail.com> wrote:

>> But is there any hard limit we're likely to encounter putting so many
>> IP's on a single machine? - Are there any limits that would likely need
>> tuning to support that many IP's?
>>
>
> Unlikely, besides those unrelated things like ntpd+select() et.al.

As far as I know they already split the software handling the IP's between 
multiple instances (some kind of VPN end points outward facing) - so as 
long as we say, avoid anything that's going to try and 'select' on all of 
them - and keep an eye on other things (like mbufs/clusters/fd's etc.) this 
should work...

Thanks for the replies...

-Kp