From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 25 06:11:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA08187 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 06:11:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA08179 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 06:11:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id WAA25264; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 22:38:19 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199604251308.WAA25264@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: 2 differents IP on the same interface ? To: mike@synwork.com (Mike Kercher) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 22:38:19 +0930 (CST) Cc: Eric.Berenguier@sycomore.fr, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Mike Kercher" at Apr 25, 96 07:06:19 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mike Kercher stands accused of saying: > > Yes...I just went through the same thing. You use ifconfig and assign > alias IP's to the device. I was told that you can ave up to 16 IP's per > interface. I may be wrong... 16? Not likely 8) You can expect to fit a whole class C (minus the net and broadcast addresses) on an interface, so 254. It's theoretically possible to have multiple class C's on the interface, but I'm told it gets messy. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[