Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 10:24:44 -0500 From: "Oliver, Michael W." <oliver.michael@gargantuan.com> To: ''Ted Mittelstaedt ' ' <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: "''freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG ' '" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Max number of NIC's and aliases Message-ID: <1DA741CA6767A144BAA4F10012536C27A8FA@LKLDDC01.GARGANTUAN.COM>
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Of course, no disrepect is intended to you Mr. Mittelstaedt. I don't know you (although you wrote a great book), and for me to dis you would be truly rediculous. Just trying to be constructive, appologies for abrasiveness given to you sir. Michael Oliver -----Original Message----- From: Oliver, Michael W. To: 'Ted Mittelstaedt '; 'Noor Dawod '; 'Guido Fortunati ' Cc: 'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG ' Sent: 11/12/2001 10:10 AM Subject: RE: Max number of NIC's and aliases It doesn't seem like a routing question to me. What is sounds like to me is that the user is asking how many possible IP addresses can a FreeBSD box answer too, whether across a maximum number of NICs, a maximum number of aliases, or (probably) both. I don't know the answer, but to say what this guy is asking to do is "totally, completely stupid" seems to be a little childish. If you have a better solution, then suggest it, otherwise... pipe down. Michael W. Oliver -----Original Message----- From: Ted Mittelstaedt To: Noor Dawod; Guido Fortunati Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sent: 11/12/2001 8:57 AM Subject: RE: Max number of NIC's and aliases Because it's totally, completely stupid to put 64 aliases on a FreeBSD interface with you can simply route a /26 to it. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Noor Dawod >Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 3:05 AM >To: Guido Fortunati >Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: RE: Max number of NIC's and aliases > > >Hmm, quite interesting.. if there's a known bug in BIND as you say, why >no one fixes it? > >Noor > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Guido Fortunati [mailto:zuez@smartdigitalinc.com] >Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 12:57 PM >To: 'Noor Dawod' >Subject: RE: Max number of NIC's and aliases > > >I don't think there's a limit for aliases. >But afaik, there's a bug when using BIND that prevents named from >starting >properly when there are more than 64 aliases on an interface. >Besides that, i don't think you'll have any problem using as many >aliases as you want. > >-guido > > >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Noor Dawod >Sent: Lunes, 12 de Noviembre de 2001 07:45 a.m. >To: Ted Mittelstaedt; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: RE: Max number of NIC's and aliases > > >And what about the aliases? How many aliases can FreeBSD or a NIC >handle? > >Noor > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Ted Mittelstaedt [mailto:tedm@toybox.placo.com] >Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 12:25 PM >To: Noor Dawod; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: RE: Max number of NIC's and aliases > > >No to both - but consider the speed of the average PCI bus. Your not >going to be able to keep a bunch of NICS in saturation on a PC, >espically 100Mbt full duplex ones. > >Ted Mittelstaedt >tedm@toybox.placo.com >Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's >Guide >Book website: >http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Noor Dawod >>Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 4:40 AM >>To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >>Subject: Max number of NIC's and aliases >> >> >>Hi, >> >>I have two questions to the list: >> >>1) is there a known number of NIC's that FreeBSD cannot handle anymore? >>2) is there a known number of aliases on one NIC that FreeBSD cannot >>handle anymore? >> >>Thanks in advance. >> >>Noor >> >> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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