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[allanpro]

Hi,

I have 3 ip addresses available on my VPS.

For sake of clarification I would like to know what JAG has done in order point these public IP addresses to my VPS. Where do they handle that?

Another reason that I am asking is that I have a box at home that I would like to do the same thing to...

Thanks for you time.

[jason]

Its a two part process. First, you have to configure the network card to listen to those IP addresses. Next you configure the server processes to respond to requests based on IP. For example, if you wanted to serve abc.com on 123.45.67.89 and xyz.com on 123.45.67.90, then in your Apache httpd.conf file you'd set up <VirtualHost> directives to specify that. See this page for Apache specifics.

--Jason

[allanpro]

Okay. Thanks Jason.

Does this mean that it will only work in non-DHCP enabled environment? I mean do all my boxes on the LAN has to have static IP addresses?

[jason]

AFAIK, it will only work with static IP's simply because I don't know how you would make DHCP assign multiple IP's to a single MAC address. If you are running a home network, though, it is usually pretty easy to specify static addresses in your DHCP config so that it will only hand them out to a specific host, and you can usually configure a system to NOT use DHCP and have it coexist with your DHCP-enabled machines just fine.

If you're running the machine as a server you'll probably want to be sure it always has the same IP anyway...

--Jason