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Date:      Thu, 25 Apr 1996 22:38:19 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        mike@synwork.com (Mike Kercher)
Cc:        Eric.Berenguier@sycomore.fr, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 2 differents IP on the same interface ?
Message-ID:  <199604251308.WAA25264@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960425070516.7947A-100000@synwork.com> from "Mike Kercher" at Apr 25, 96 07:06:19 am

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Mike Kercher stands accused of saying:
> 
> Yes...I just went through the same thing.  You use ifconfig and assign 
> alias IP's to the device.  I was told that you can ave up to 16 IP's per 
> interface. I may be wrong...

16?  Not likely 8)   You can expect to fit a whole class C (minus the net
and broadcast addresses) on an interface, so 254.  It's theoretically
possible to have multiple class C's on the interface, but I'm told it 
gets messy.

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