However to assign many addresses I used to assing entire classes of
addresses to a loopback interface (usually lo1) and have routed (rip)
announcing routes to them through the wired interfaces that had just
one address, If your OS supports it (at least BSDs do) that's cleaner.
Luis
On 1/18/07, Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
Your correct, see http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1151
Thanx,
Jaap
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Miha Jemec wrote:
> Hi!
>
> If I have more alias IP addresses on one ethernet interface, the
> wireshark application gets into problem.
>
> I have latest official wireshark version 0.99.4 running on a
> high end server (Intel Core2 Duo with 12 GB of memory).
>
> I have 1016 alias addresses configured on one interface. When I
> press Capture->Start button it takes 55s to open next window and
> additional 20s to start capturing.
>
> And the Capture Dialog window doesn't display the IP addresses
> correctly. The window gets very wide and the addresses are
> overlapped (look the attachment).
>
> I think even if 1000+ alias IP addresses are not the most common
> configuration, this is still a bug?
>
> Regards, Miha
>
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