Re: IP Alias Limit

Juan Jose Ciarlante (irriga@impsat1.com.ar)
Wed, 4 Jun 1997 09:41:27 -0300 (GMT-0300)


On Fri, 20 Sep 1996, James L. McGill wrote:

> What is the limit to the number of IPALIASes?
Arbitrary 256 aliases per device (2.0.30), tuned with internal hash table
size.
Incoming 2.0.31 has dynamic alias limit, allowing better hash table
sizing, please see ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/davem/
for 2.0.31-pre2 patch (I also upgraded Documentation/networking/alias.txt).

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