From: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>
To: Jim Roland <jroland@roland.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel ethernet alias limit
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 13:11:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020219131121.A6383@outpost.ds9a.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000701c1b929$33a47c60$ab9eef0c@jimws>
In-Reply-To: <000701c1b929$33a47c60$ab9eef0c@jimws>; from jroland@roland.net on Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 09:39:30AM +0000
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 09:39:30AM +0000, 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.
Use a loopback interface - you can easily bind to a /8 if you want this way.
I think this is documented in the 'ip' documentation in 'iproute2' from
Alexey. It has also been explained on list here.
Regards,
bert
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-19 12:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-19 9:38 Jim Roland
2002-02-19 10:16 ` Luis Garces
2002-02-19 12:11 ` bert hubert [this message]
2002-02-19 18:18 ` David Lang
2002-02-19 18:03 ` David Ford
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