Re: Scaling Max IP address limitation

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Sun Jun 24 2007 - 14:03:26 EST


On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:20:01 -0500 David Jones <djones@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> I am trying to add multiple IP addresses ( v6 ) to my FC7 box on eth0.
> But I am hitting a max limit of 4000 IP address . Seems like there is a
> limiting variable in linux kernel (which one? ) that prevents from
> adding more IP addresses than 4096. What do I need to change in Linux
> kernel ( and then recompile ) to be able to add more IP addresses than
> 4K addresses per system? ..

(cc netdev)
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