Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Feb 2002 13:11:21 +0100 | From | bert hubert <> | Subject | Re: Kernel ethernet alias limit |
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On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 09:39:30AM +0000, 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.
Use a loopback interface - you can easily bind to a /8 if you want this way.
I think this is documented in the 'ip' documentation in 'iproute2' from Alexey. It has also been explained on list here.
Regards,
bert
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