From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 19 11:23:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA03078 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 19 May 1996 11:23:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA03064 for ; Sun, 19 May 1996 11:22:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with ESMTP id TAA19308; Sun, 19 May 1996 19:22:29 +0100 (BST) To: slagos@net1plus.com cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 19 May 1996 14:01:21 EDT." <319F61F1.3A1A@net1plus.com> Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 19:22:27 +0100 Message-ID: <19306.832530147@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "Scott A. Lagos" wrote in message ID <319F61F1.3A1A@net1plus.com>: > How many IP addresses can be supported on a single Ethernet card when > running under the latest version of FreeBSD. If you are talking about ``aliased'' addresses, such as used when creating virtual WWW servers, FreeBSD 2.1-RELEASE can support as many aliases as you can fit in memory. In theory all 4294967296 (i.e. 2^32) IP v4 addresses could be supported on one interface. I believe that at least one person has over 200 aliased addresses on his machine. Certainly in testing a full class C address space (if not more, I can't remember how far the testing went) has been aliased onto a single interface without problem. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info