Re: [SLUG] multiple daemons on one port

From: Chris Mathey (slug@mathey.org)
Date: Tue Jun 12 2007 - 08:37:48 EDT


ronan wrote:
> Mark Bishop wrote:
>> Has anyone written something that allows me to have two daemons
>> listening on the same port. I seem to recall someone saying something
>> like this was possible back when I used to host the Sarasota meetings,
>> but I didn't call 'bull crap' on it at the time 'cause I had other
>> things going on.
> You can have two different daemons listen to the same port, as long as
> they are listening on different physical (or virtual adapters). To do
> this with one ethernet card, but 2 IP addresses, just create an eth0:1
> with the second IP address, and different daemons will handle
> connections to different IPs.
>
> --ronan

Nice, good thinking. Can't believe we missed that.
Then on your firewall you can just redirect to the different IP address.
-Chris

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