Technobabble

Why multiple IP’s on a single Network Interface Card?

If you want to run different instances of the jboss application server on the same linux machine you will need to figure out how you want to avoid port conflitcs. You can either change each instance’s ports on a per instance basis or you can instead set up a separate ip address for each instance and preserve all the default ports that jboss ships with.

For example, jboss by default runs off port 8080, and also consumes a number of other ports such as 8083 for RMI, 1098 for the JNP…

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