Re: Alias IP

From: Roy (garlic_at_garlic.com)
Date: 02/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 07:48:24 -0800

jhidalgo wrote:
> 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

I asked this question years ago and the answer for AIX 4.3 was basically
unlimited. The interface table is a linked list.

I have run a system with about 500 addresses.

Roy

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