[Gllug] Virtual IP addresses on a Linux box

[Xander D Harkness]

Oooh How exciting!  New config methods. :-)

I am still using the ?old? eth:0... way

I have not heard of the ip addr add ... dev eth0 method, do you have the 
commands, man page, web url ?


Cheers
Xander



Dave Cridland wrote:

> I've never noticed much of a performance degredation, and I've been
> doing virtual IP addresses by the /24 using the 'old' way (ifconfig
> eth0:something), rather than the new way (ip addr add ... dev eth0).
> 
> If anything, I'd expect the new way to be faster, but that's simply a
> gut feeling.
> 
> On 09 Jul 2001 05:28:53 +0200, Xander D Harkness wrote:
> 
>>If you have a large number of virtual IP addresses on a sun box it can 
>>dramatically degrade it's performance.
>>
>>Is this the same for Linux and does anyone know how many IPs start to 
>>degrade the performance if this is so?
>>
>>(yes it is me running ssl on virtual hosts :-)
>>
>>Kind regards
>>Xander
>>
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