How many IPs can you bind to a NIC in Win 2003?

Well,

How many IPs can you bind to a NIC in Windows 2003 Standard, Web or
Enterprise? Some testing allows me to put 12 class C's without problem. If
I try 14 class C's, the machine freaks. What's the defined(non-empirical)
limit?

Tim Net

"Tim Net" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Well,
>
> How many IPs can you bind to a NIC in Windows 2003 Standard, Web or
> Enterprise?

More than you will ever need <grin> (really)

There is not (pratical) limit and hasn't been going
way back in NT.

There was a NT GUI limiation where only five could
be assigned in the dialog box and thus a rumor started
that you couldn't have more but even then you could do
it through the registry.

Some NICs (circa 1998) would go belly up with more
than about 50, but this was likely bugs in specific NIC
drivers or the NIC firmware and others of the same
era went above 2000.

> Some testing allows me to put 12 class C's without problem. If
> I try 14 class C's, the machine freaks. What's the defined(non-empirical)
> limit?

I don't know that it is published. It is likely
constrained by something like 16-bits or 32-bits
( 64k or 4 billion)

If you get past 2000 let us know (that is the most
that I personally know about but it was NOT a limit,
just all they needed.)

"Herb Martin" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> > Some testing allows me to put 12 class C's without problem. If
> > I try 14 class C's, the machine freaks. What's the
defined(non-empirical)
> > limit?
>
> I don't know that it is published. It is likely
> constrained by something like 16-bits or 32-bits
> ( 64k or 4 billion)

Here is the only published one I am aware of:

More Than 15 IP Addresses Assigned to Server Causes Active Directory-Related
Problems (Q258960):
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=258960

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Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
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