Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 02:42:55 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How many loopback interfaces has anybody successfully used? Message-ID: <199711260242.CAA25473@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Nov 1997 13:02:25 PST." <Pine.NEB.3.95.971125130058.5824b-100000@mail.cdsnet.net>
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> Just curious. Had an idea for something, but it would depend on FreeBSD's
> ability to handle a few thousand or so IP's on loopback aliases.
The only problem I'd expect is a speed one. The interface addresses
are stored in a linear list. You may get better performance by
configuring a number of loopback interfaces (say tun0-tun99), thus
having 100th of the aliases on each. I haven't tried anything of
this scale though.....
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