Re: "Silly" question about IP, NICs, and Linux

[Neil Horman]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 11:35:20AM +0000, Mateus Interciso wrote:
> Hello,
> Is there a way to create thousands of internal ips (like 10.0.0.1) on 
> just one linux box, with 2 NICs?
> I need this for a final paper for university, it would be about routing 
> and load balancing, and since I don't have thousands of computers, I 
> would need another way, is there any?
> 
> Thanks a lot.
> 
> Mateus
> 
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You could add multiple ips to each interface using iproute2, but for your
described need it would probably just be easier to write a program to generate
packets with varying mac/ip addresses using a raw socket and libnet

Neil
 
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