Interface aliases

[Olivier Nicole]

> As a general rule, you should have one IP per NIC.  Putting
> thousands of IP addresses on a single box is a misuse of limited IP
> space, unless you are using RFC-1918 addresses.  What is the actual
> problem you are trying to solve?

That is not true.

As a web hosting company, you may want to have one IP per web site (to
allow SSL for example) but all hosting on a single machine.

Olivier