Installing and running multiple instances of the same software

[Amer]

Thank you for your help.

I would like to use two vyattas. One dedicated for customer 1 and another dedicated for customer 2. The two vyattas could be configured to be two firewalls or two load balancers. However, I thought about two NICs or two vNICs, one for each instance.

Best regards,
Amer

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> On Mar 13, 2016, at 8:51 AM, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 2016-03-13 at 07:20 +0300, Amer wrote:
>> I would like to install the same software twice in my machine. The
>> software is vyatta and my machine is Ubuntu 12.04. Also, I want to
>> run these two instances at the same time.
>> I do not want to use VMs based solution.
> 
> There are two main barriers to running the same software twice on the
> same system. One is where the software looks for running instances of
> itself and refuses to run a second instance (or starts up some form of
> subprocess of the original instance instead of a whole new process).
> For an example of this, look at firefox:
> 
> kauer at kt:~$ ps ax | grep firefox | grep -v grep
> 1980 ?        Sl    14:01 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
> kauer at kt:~$ firefox
> kauer at kt:~$ ps ax | grep firefox | grep -v grep
> 1980 ?        Sl    14:03 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
> 
> ... even though I started a "new" firefox, the new window was started
> within the existing process; even though a new window opened, there is
> still only one firefox process.
> 
> Sometimes such programs have command line options to allow you to start
> additional instances; check the documentation. For example, Firefox has
> the -no-remote option. Two instances can't use the same profile, so to
> use -no-remote you have to either specify a non-default profile or use
> the -ProfileManager option at the same time. I created a new profile
> for this demonstration and have removed the command line tails here for
> clarity. As you can see, a second firefox process was started:
> 
> kauer at kt:~$ ps ax | grep firefox | grep -v grep
> 1980 ?        Sl    14:12 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
> kauer at kt:~$ firefox -no-remote -p testing &
> [1] 8662
> kauer at kt:~$ ps ax | grep firefox | grep -v grep
> 1980 ?        Sl    14:12 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
> 8662 pts/2    Sl     0:01 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
> 
> The other main barrier is where the software uses a unique system
> resource, that cannot be used at the same time by another process. An
> example of this would be a web server, a DNS server or similar, because
> they take over particular ports. I haven't used vyatta, but I strongly
> suspect that this is the problem with it, because it will be listening
> on particular ports for eg BGP communications.
> 
> Sometimes such programs have configuration options that allow them to
> use non-standard ports - for example, BIND can be configured to listen
> on ports other than port 53, Apache can be configured to listen on
> ports other than port 80. However, this is generally only useful for
> testing purposes, because the systems attempting to connect to these
> services generally expect them to be on the standard ports.
> 
> As Ralf has said, if you tell us what exactly you are trying to
> achieve, we may be able to help you work out a solution.
> 
> Regards, K.
> 
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