Re: 2.4.x IP aliase max eth0:16 (16 aliases), where to change?

[J Sloan]

Noel Koethe wrote:

> Hello,
>
> The maximum aliases I can configure with a 2.4.x kernel is 16, right?

er... I would expect you could do thousands....
It's really a matter of how much RAM and CPU
you have -

> Where I can change this? I want to use more aliases.
> linux/Documentation/networking/alias.txt tells nothing about this limit
> and how to change it.

I haven't seen any such limit - heck, I had over 200
ethernet aliases on a 2.0.x slackware box back in 1996 -

cu

jjs