1) Is it possible to assign multiple ip adresses to a single network adapter? yes, this is possible. look for "ip aliasing support" when compiling the kernel (don't know if this is standard for suse kernels) then you can assign eth0:0 to ip 1.2.3.4 and eth0:1 to ip 1.2.3.5 2) If 1 is possible, then my next question is: is it possible to direct the requests to different processes listening to the same port? of course! you just have to tell the program to bind to the specific interface! (depends on the program) Maybe I should ask if it is possible to have different (ip-based) "port spaces" where different processes listen to the same port but for a different ip address? port space is always different for several ip's
greets Markus Gaugusch