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Re: [Xen-users] Max number of Network Aliases?

To: Stephan Seitz <s.seitz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Max number of Network Aliases?
From: Igor Chubin <igor@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 02:24:10 +0300
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On Mo, Mär 31, 2008 at 11:38:28 +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote:
> You are limited to 3 vif NIC's, but you're not limited in IP usage.
> I've done PV domU setups with about 40 IP's assigned to one NIC. This is 
> nothing special inside a domU and can be done as on bare metal (eth0, 
> eth0:1, eth0:2 and so on).
> On the other hand, i've tried to setup a firewall distro with 5 NIC's for 
> testing purposes, 3 NIC's are vif's, 2 are
> physical ones via pci passthru. This does also work as expected.
>

Also you can create VLAN subinterfaces 
on the interfaces.

This allows you to have isolated interfaces
(aliases not).

>
> Ryan Burke schrieb:
>> I know that there is a 3 network interface max for Xen 3.*. But is there a
>> max number of network aliases?
>>
>> Since they are all on the same subnet then really it should just bridging
>> the traffic. Correct? Does anyone have a PV DomU that has more than 3 IP
>> addresses being used inside it?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ryan
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