From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 12 5:55:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 333DC37B41F for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 05:55:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id fACDtGT12649; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 05:55:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Noor Dawod" , Subject: RE: Max number of NIC's and aliases Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 05:55:16 -0800 Message-ID: <002e01c16b81$a8831280$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, you can simply route 0.0.0.0 towards your FreeBSD system and now handle 4 billion addresses I guess... Seriously, I think your not completely understanding TCP/IP networking if your worried about aliasing a ton of IP numbers on a NIC. What is it that you believe that aliasing does, exactly? More to the point, what are you trying to accomplish? A s-load of virtual websites or something? If so, you don't alias for that kind of thing, you route. 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: Monday, November 12, 2001 2:45 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: RE: Max number of NIC's and aliases > > >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 >> >> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message