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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!pravda.aa.msen.com!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!ftpbox!mothost!newdelph.cig.mot.com!komondor!kadow From: kadow@komondor.cig.mot.com (Kevin Kadow) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: IP/Alias limitations? Date: 10 Aug 1995 16:52:57 GMT Organization: Motorola Cellular Infrastructure Group Lines: 12 Message-ID: <40ddh9$kjf@newdelph.cig.mot.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: komondor.rtsg.mot.com I'm looking for information on the actual limitations on the number of IP addresses (real interfaces and aliases) a single PC/NetBSD system can answer to. With a single ethernet card, I noticed the system becomes unstable around the magic number of 32- console shows strange ARP error messages and eventually the system freezes up. Can I add an additional network card and configure further aliases on that card, or is the OS limited to only 32 IP addresses per machine? This is primarily for web service on a medium-end 486 system.