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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
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