Maxium number of VIP's per physical interface.

["Radomski, Mike" <Mike.Radomski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

Is there any maximum number of VIP's per physical interface?  I added 4 VIP's and everything was ok.  When I added one more, to make the total 5, I ran into problems.  The 5^th interface did not show up as say eth0:4.  When I shutdown heartbeat, it then showed up as eth0:1?  I had to manually remove it.  When I go back down to 4 VIP's everything is stable.  I have been running on 4 VIP's for about 2 years w/o incidence.

 

I would like to preface this by saying my configuration is old.  2.4.18 kernel, heartbeat-0.4.9-1.um.1 and heartbeat-ldirectord-0.4.9-1.um.1. 

 

Thanks for any help in advance.  If any one can confirm upgrading will give me more VIP's it would be appreciated.

 

Mike Radomski

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