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From: kadow@komondor.cig.mot.com (Kevin Kadow)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Max # of IP
Date: 7 Feb 1996 20:35:46 GMT
Organization: Cellular Infrastructure Group, Motorola
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In article <4f7jco$l4k@galileo.polito.it>,
Lorenzo Cavassa <cavassa@csp.it> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>what is the maximal number of IP that can i assign to the same ethernet
>interface under FreeBSD 2.1?

Theoretically, the number of IP aliases is limited only by your subnet mask
and the ARP caches on the machines that share the subnet.

There are other limitations, in the low 60's I seem to hit some problems with
select, getting errors from the httpd process.