From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Christopher Friesen" Subject: max number of subnets/addresses? Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 10:42:00 -0600 Message-ID: <446B5258.5000803@nortel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from zrtps0kn.nortel.com ([47.140.192.55]:5036 "EHLO zrtps0kn.nortel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750710AbWEQQmF (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 May 2006 12:42:05 -0400 Received: from zcarhxs1.corp.nortel.com (zcarhxs1.corp.nort...s0.corp.nortel.com [47.129.230.89]) by zrtps0kn.nortel.com (Switch-2.2.6/Switch-2.2.0) with ESMTP id k4HGg2I17485 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 12:42:02 -0400 (EDT) To: Netdev List Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org I've been asked a couple of questions by our engineering guys. 1) Is there any inherent limit on the number of IP addresses that can be configured on an interface? 2) Is there any inherent limit on the number of subnets that a linux host can have configured at any given time? If anyone could answer these off the top of their head, it would save me some time digging through unfamiliar code. Thanks, Chris