Running 2 TF2 Servers

[hawk16]

How do I run 2 TF2 servers on my dedicated server?

[fqdn]

easiest way, just copy the contents of the steam folder to a different one say steam2, then run the executable with -port 27016 instead of -27015 (in the command line)

[BloodyIron]

I dont know if you will have port forwarding problems, as you have two servers running similar IP ranges on the same machine. I know that you can change the Server port listed, but I do not know how this affects things like the VAC port and the RCON port.

Can anyone fill in the details? I too am curious as to how this would turn out.

[fqdn]

if it's a true dedicated server and not behind a "home" router, that's is how it's done.

one startup line would be: ./srcds_run -console blah blah -port 27015
the other one would be: ./srcds_run -console blah blah -port 27016

you can do symlinks if you want and it would save space but the easiest answer is just to do it this way.

[BloodyIron]

I'm inquiring if the computer has one IP, if it'll open up additional ports for second instances of VAC or RCON?

[fqdn]

i believe so, all ports would go up by one, just start up a second server and do a "netstat -l" it will show what ports are open.

[Muppet]

fqdn Wrote:i believe so, all ports would go up by one, just start up a second server and do a "netstat -l" it will show what ports are open.

netstat -a ?

[fqdn]

either option will show what ports are open.

[Muppet]

according to mine, -l isn't a valid parameter :/

Was just curious.

[fqdn]

that's strange, what distro? i'm using centos

[Drocona]

SRCDS will assign ports automatically, you shouldn't even have to set -port 27016, normally it selects that by default when 27015 is being used, same goes for the rest of the ports.