Re: ? four port NIC - Unknown if this is configured?

Robert staggered into the Black Sun and said:
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:16:27 +0000, Jack Snodgrass wrote:
First of all.... a private IP Address for your customers doesn't have
anything to do with a 4 port ethernet card. I have a web server with
252 ips on one nic.
And this would be useful for what......?

A number of things. Although I've never had that many aliases on one
NIC, I've used this before on a gateway box. Things with destination
n.n.n.131 got sent to machine X, things with destination n.n.n.132 got
sent to machine Y, things with destination n.n.n.133 got sent to machine
Z. This allowed all of X, Y, and Z to run sshd on port 22 and made them
all reachable over the wide net.

For a webserver, multiple IPs seem a little less useful since Apache has
VirtualHost. But maybe Jack will enlighten us.

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