Dual connections

[[Toast]]

Could srcds accept connections on 2 different network cards and IPs? Assuming I don't bind srcds to a specific IP? How would the server browser treat this scenario?

The reason I'm wondering is because I have 2 internet connections. If the server browser were to be a problem I could have people connect to my server's domain name (which resolves to an IP), but then I have another question: What if I were to setup round-robin DNS with those 2 connection's IPs for my domain? Would it work?

Could this scenario increase the amount of clients I could handle?

[fqdn]

i believe it can but not in the scenario you are describing, if i read you correctly you want 2 different ips to go to the same server instance. in that case it's a no, however if you bind servers to different ips then you can (in theory). round robin won't work for the same reason i described above, you'd be sending people to 2 different servers.

[[Toast]]

Well, if people can't join 2 different IPs then why can I for example join my server by its LAN IP address and other people join it by its public address?

[fqdn]

that's because you are using port forwarding, it may work if you use 2 routers, one for each of the 2 external ip's. well, may work in theory anyway.

[Mooga]

[Toast Wrote:]
Well, if people can't join 2 different IPs then why can I for example join my server by its LAN IP address and other people join it by its public address?

Your computer has one IP address, your router has the other.
When you connect to the local IP, a connection is directly made.
When you connect through the external IP address, you are connecting to the router and the connections to set ports are being forwarded to your server.

[[Toast]]

I remembered that shortly after I posted that.

So a single srcds instance can't listen on multiple interfaces?

[Drocona]

Nope, just one, else there would be port problems due to being used by other servers etc (if you have 2 servers for example)