<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 2:06 PM, - Tethys <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tethys@gmail.com">tethys@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Alain Williams <<a href="mailto:addw@phcomp.co.uk">addw@phcomp.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
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> He should be aware that there can be several IP addresses per MAC.<br>
> Quite how many - not important, the most that I have seen is about<br>
> 6 on an intereface.<br></div></blockquote><div><br>Your default router receives packets for every IP on the same MAC.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div>I've seen many more than that in real world use. I think the most was<br>
about 60 or so. One of our servers here has 16 at the moment.<br>
<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><br>I've got a couple of servers with 200 ethernet aliases (SSL vhosts). Admitidly they're not all in use yet.. but they are configured.<br><br>I'm sure there's some way you could rig up linux to arp and respond for every IP in the IPv4 space (like a netmask of 0.0.0.0) so I guess we can say it's impossible to have more than 4294967296 IPv4 IPs.<br>
<br>You'd also need to subtract various unusable parts such as <a href="http://0.0.0.0/8">0.0.0.0/8</a> <a href="http://127.0.0.0/8">127.0.0.0/8</a> and the multicast networks.. so maybe somewhere around 4227858432 IPs. <br>
<br>Rob<br></div>