Re: IP Alias Limit
really kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru (inr-linux-kernel@ms2.inr.ac.ru)
21 Sep 1996 22:38:10 +0400
Jacques Gelinas (jack@solucorp.qc.CA) wrote:
: This makes me wonder. The current scheme of doing alias is neat to handle
: a couple of alias. People who need more are generally dedicating complete
: class C network (or a complete subnet) to aliases. Would it be possible to
: create a dummy device like we have but which accept every packet
: fitting in its network mask as itself. With such a device, I would have
: created the complete 2500 aliases with 10 dummies and 10 routes. I guess
: this would be more efficient in the long run. Any comments!
Well, I added similar feature to new version of routing code
(it will be available for 2.1.x)
Beware, IP addresses not assigned to any interface would break
numerous applications, that bound to all host addresses
(f.e. named) and all routing daemons.
Alexey Kuznetsov.