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From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
To: Fabrice Bardey <bardey@inforoute.cgs.fr>
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Subject: Re: IP aliasing
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On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Fabrice Bardey wrote:

> Hello from from France (hoping my english will be understandable !),
> 
> I am to choose an OS to install a web server and freebsd seems to be the
> nicest ! But I would like to have informations about IP aliasing
> features : First is it possible with freeBSD ? and then is it expensive
> in terms of system resources ? (I mean can I easily set 10 or 20 ip
> adresses to the same network interface with no problems ?)
> 
> Any help would be appreciated !

There are reports on this list of people running around 200 virtual web 
servers on a single machine. I run (just) 6 on a 75MHz Pentium, with just 
24MB, and though I'm thinking of an upgrade, I don't think it has much to 
do with the IP aliasing.

> 
> Nice day for everybody!
> 
> Fabrice Bardey
> 
Nadav