From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 19:14:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 19:14:30 -0400 Received: from armitage.toyota.com ([63.87.74.3]:50701 "EHLO armitage.toyota.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 19:14:19 -0400 Message-ID: <3B70764D.E90F96B6@lexus.com> Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 16:14:21 -0700 From: J Sloan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.8-pre3 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Noel Koethe CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.x IP aliase max eth0:16 (16 aliases), where to change? In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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