Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 00:44:31 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, john@yoafrica.com Subject: Re: Interface aliases Message-ID: <42C2272F.6090501@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <200506290126.j5T1QJO3011113@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> References: <20050628153611.GA1019@yoafrica.com> <42C185E2.50005@mac.com> <200506290126.j5T1QJO3011113@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
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Olivier Nicole wrote: >> As a general rule, you should have one IP per NIC. Putting >> thousands of IP addresses on a single box is a misuse of limited IP >> space, unless you are using RFC-1918 addresses. What is the actual >> problem you are trying to solve? > > That is not true. > > As a web hosting company, you may want to have one IP per web site (to > allow SSL for example) but all hosting on a single machine. There exist some exceptions to the generalization above. You've mentioned a possibility, although I would also seriously question whether a single webserver with hundreds or thousands of distinct SSL sites on it is really a good idea. -- -Chuck
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