Hi!
Don't know the exact figures, but I was recently able to create more
than a thousand eth0:X interfaces in a single machine with 2.2.19
kernels. And it worked perfectly (answer to ping from another host, etc)
Jim Roland wrote:
> I seem to remember back in either Kernel 2.0 or 2.2 there was a limit of 256
> aliases within the ethX aliasing (eg, eth0, then eth0:0 thru eth0:255).
>
> Has the limit on this been expanded with Kernel 2.4, is it stable and/or
> advised? I have a need to bind more than 256 addresses to a single
> interface. Without installing additional network cards.
>
> Thanks,
> Jim Roland, RHCE
>
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