Messages in this thread | | | From | Perry Harrington <> | Subject | Re: Net aliasing limits | Date | Thu, 5 Mar 1998 21:21:20 -0800 (PST) |
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> > I'm trying to configure a single ethernet interface to have more than 256 > aliases. I was under the impression that echoing something like "512" to > /proc/sys/net/core/net_alias would allow this to happen, but whenever I try > to add an alias above 255 I get this:
/proc/sys/net/core/net_alias_max is the documented sysctl interface to adjust this. 'echo "512" > /proc/sys/net/core/net_alias_max' worked fine for me. (2.0.33) Perhaps you do not have the ip_alias module installed? Compiled into the kernel???
> > SIOCSIFADDR: Invalid argument > > Is this an ifconfig problem, a kernel limit, or something else? (I have Deja > Newsed to no avail). > > Zach > -- > Zachary Beane xach@mint.net > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu >
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