On Mon, 6 Nov 1995, Mike Batchelor wrote:
> In comp.unix.solaris you write:
>
[snip]
>
> Ah! Good point. I'm glad you mentioned this, because I am about to
> implement a multi-home server, and was looking at separate log files. This
> fopen() limit of 256 handles is per-process, right?
>
Yup.
> But it's good news to me that you have >130 aliases running. I had no idea
> how many ifaces it could support.
>
> > I've been told that each ethernet interface in these boxes will
> >allow up to 255 IP addresses to be aliased. I'll run out of space in
> >the current class-C before then, but I found that I can assign addresses
> >from another class-C to the interface, route it through the primary
> >IP for the machine as a gateway, and things work just fine.
>
> Do you mean, like this:
>
> ifconfig le0 192.168.10.1
> ifconfig le0:1 192.168.11.1
> route add -net 192.168.11.0 192.168.10.1 0
>
> And then let routed or gated broadcast a route to the alias subnet?
Exactly. If I'd figured this out at first, I would have put
them *all* on the new class C. I'll probably do this on my next server.
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