From: J Sloan <jjs@toyota.com>
To: Noel Koethe <noel@koethe.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.x IP aliase max eth0:16 (16 aliases), where to change?
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 16:14:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B70764D.E90F96B6@lexus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0108072238160.20904-100000@data.wipol.uni-bonn.de>
Noel Koethe wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The maximum aliases I can configure with a 2.4.x kernel is 16, right?
er... I would expect you could do thousands....
It's really a matter of how much RAM and CPU
you have -
> Where I can change this? I want to use more aliases.
> linux/Documentation/networking/alias.txt tells nothing about this limit
> and how to change it.
I haven't seen any such limit - heck, I had over 200
ethernet aliases on a 2.0.x slackware box back in 1996 -
cu
jjs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-07 23:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-07 20:41 2.4.x IP aliase max eth0:16 (16 aliases), where to change? Noel Koethe
2001-08-07 20:48 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-08-07 21:08 ` Justin Guyett
2001-08-07 23:14 ` J Sloan [this message]
2001-08-08 1:21 ` Dan Podeanu
2001-08-08 7:23 ` john slee
2001-08-08 7:44 ` David Lang
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