[SunHELP] how many interfaces can be created with ifconfig / plumb

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> What is the maximum number of plumbed interfaces ?
> help please ....

  Solaris 2.5.1 has a maximum of 1024 virtual interfaces for each physical
NIC. You may want to check the settings for "/dev/ip ip_addrs_per_if" and 
see if someone has set a limit of 32. Also, you should realize that logical
interfaces do not need to be plumbed... but their corresponding physical 
interface does (try taking "up" out of your line or at least moving it towards
the end).

 -david

> Hi
> I am using Solaris 2.5.1 on a sparc server. I am used to create
> interface with
> ifconfig and the PLUMB option. I have created the le0:31 interface but
> now I
> can't create more interface.
> When I  try to create a new interface, I got this error message:
> 
> #ifconfig le0:32 up x.y.z.k netmask d.f.g.j broadcast e.r.t.t
> ifconfig: SIOCGIFFLAGS: le0:32: no such interface
>