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Asked: 2011-03-16 06:14:32 +0800 CST

how to setup daemons on a machine with multiple IPs?

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I have a linux box with two IP addresses (say IP1, and IP2).

I have a server-process listening to a specific port (say 60000). Now, I want to run two copies of the server-process on the above linux box. How can I set up my system such that I can have process1 handle packets to IP1:60000 and have process2 handle packets to IP2:60000?

Or can I?

networking web-server

2 Answers

  1. Generally most daemons will have an option in the config to control which IP address and Port pair it will bind or listen on (see man 2 bind for the nitty-gritty C system call level details).

    After you have changed the configuration and restarted the daemon, you can see what it is bound to using the netstat -ln command. Example output will be something like:

    Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN

    0.0.0.0 means all IPs and the :22 means it is listening destination TCP port 22. The second column 0.0.0.0:* means accepts all source IPs and source ports.

    In your case you should see one row that has a local address like 12.12.12.12:6000 and another row with a local address like 13.13.13.13:6000.

    If you there doesn't seem to be an option in the configuration file, it might be a command line switch for the daemon itself. In that case you might need to edit the start up file in /etc/init.d/whatever. This is usually not the case however.

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  2. The process itself is generally in control of the IP addresses it listens on. For example, in Apache, you set up the listening IP in the <VirtualHosts> directive.

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