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From: Luis Garces <Luis.Garces@eurecom.fr>
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Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel ethernet alias limit
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 11:16:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C722605.3080905@eurecom.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000701c1b929$33a47c60$ab9eef0c@jimws>

Hi!

Don't know the exact figures, but I was recently able to create more 
than a thousand eth0:X interfaces in a single machine with 2.2.19 
kernels. And it worked perfectly (answer to ping from another host, etc)

Jim Roland wrote:

> I seem to remember back in either Kernel 2.0 or 2.2 there was a limit of 256
> aliases within the ethX aliasing (eg, eth0, then eth0:0 thru eth0:255).
> 
> Has the limit on this been expanded with Kernel 2.4, is it stable and/or
> advised?  I have a need to bind more than 256 addresses to a single
> interface.  Without installing additional network cards.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jim Roland, RHCE
> 
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Luis
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-19 10:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-19  9:38 Kernel ethernet alias limit Jim Roland
2002-02-19 10:16 ` Luis Garces [this message]
2002-02-19 12:11 ` bert hubert
2002-02-19 18:18   ` David Lang
2002-02-19 18:03 ` David Ford

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