Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Mar 1998 00:57:04 -0500 (EST) | From | Jon Lewis <> | Subject | Re: Net aliasing limits |
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On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Zach Beane wrote:
> 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:
You have to adjust /proc/sys/net/core/net_alias_max before any alias devices are initialized. Before this was /proc adjustable, I just commented out the 256 limit and tested a system running some 2.0.x kernel with 1024 eth0:???? aliases.
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