Re: Multiple IP addresses under kernel 2.0.x

Tony Pardini (apardini@ns1.rutgers.edu)
Thu, 5 Sep 1996 12:39:25 -0500 (CDT)

I emailed the author of this part of the code a while back.. and he said
it was 254.. and the ability to change it was just a simple constant
change in the source. I think he also said soemthing about a hash table
that could be tweaked for better performance..

On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Lindsay Haisley wrote:

> I'm working on a contract job for a client who will need to assign a
> relatively large number of IP addresses to a single network interface. How
> many such assignments are supported under Linux 2.0.x? I've been told that
> the nominal number is 32, tweakable to 64 by appropriate bit-switching in
> the Right Place. We will proabably need in excess of 200 such assignments.
> BSDI supports 256, I'm told, but we're already using Linux and would just as
> soon continue to do so.
>
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