Alias IP

From: jhidalgo (jhidalgo_at_um.es)
Date: 02/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 14:50:01 +0100

Hi all,

one of our boxes has some different IP Aliases in the
same interface. what's the maximum limit of aliasIP per interface ?
NOTE: AIX5.2 and IPV4

thanks in advance

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