Has this limitation been overcome as yet and if it has what version of tools and kernel is needed ? Thanks Mike Herbert Poetzl wrote: > On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 10:22:19PM +0200, Bruno wrote: > >> On Wednesday 23 August 2006 22:08, Kathy Kost wrote: >> >>> Nope. Once an alias is created, however which way, the system comes up >>> with a "16 alias max" message. Don't recall the actual message. The >>> vserver would not restart and I had to remove the interfaces and reboot >>> the entire server. >>> >>> Kathy >>> >>> >>>> Does it help to add ip's with the ip add ... command instead of >>>> using ifconfig? Aliases are sooo last millennium. >>>> >>>> >>>> /Benny >>>> > > >> The kernel patch has a maximum of IP addresses per network context >> defined. >> > > >> Context-association of IP addresses is not optimized, thus many >> addresses cause some overhead when checking if incoming packets may be >> delivered to a guest. (check if IP is available to a guest) >> > > >> In addition you have 12 bytes allocated per possible IP address: 12 * >> 16 = 192 bytes (even if guest has just 1 IP assigned to it) >> > > >> For the define limiting the count of IP addresses, see >> include/linux/vserver/network.h (line 11): >> > > >> @define NB_IPV4ROOT 16 >> > > >> Note that you may need to check what header the userspace tools get >> compiled against. >> > > also note that this limitation will go away pretty soon :) > > best, > Herbert > > >> Bruno >> _______________________________________________ >> Vserver mailing list >> Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org >> http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver >> > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver >