On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 02:48:43AM +0200, Sven Koch wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Michael Fissel wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know of a limit to the number of IP addresses that a nic card
> > can have before another is required or is it just a function of how much
> > traffic the card has to handle?
>
> The number of IP addresses on one interface in kernel 2.2.x is only
> limited by physical memory as far as I can tell. In a test I was able to
> assign over 7000 numbers to one eth - worked without problems, only
> ifconfig took nearly 10 minutes to get me a list (old 233mhz machine
> with suse 6.4 and suse kernel 2.2.14)
The 10 minutes were probably caused by the name resolver in ifconfig.
Try ifconfig -n
-Andi
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