[Novalug] Point multiple IPs to one server?

[Joel Fouse]

You guys filled in the blanks for me, and nicely.  Thanks much!

- Joel


On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 18:37 -0500, Joel Fouse wrote:

> I know that it's possible to have multiple public IP addresses pointed
> at a single server, because webhosts offer static IP as a value-add.
> I also know that you can configure Apache vhosts to listen only to
> specific IP addresses.  What I'm missing is what's in between, if
> anything.  The point-multiple-IPs has to at least be configured
> external to the box in question (at the
> router/switch/whatevernetworkingblackbox level), but is there any
> configuration at the OS level to tell the box to actually listen to
> all of them?  Or does it just take in whatever's sent to it and Apache
> just slurps up whatever you've told it to?  Is there any limit (hard
> or otherwise) to the number of IPs that can be pointed to a single
> box?
> 
> If it helps target any answers, I'm partly just wanting to fill in my
> knowledge in general, and partly referring to a specific box that's
> currently on RHEL 4.
> 
> - Joel 
> 
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