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When you set up an HCL Domino® partitioned server, it is usually best to assign a separate IP address to each partition and use a separate NIC for each. Using a separate NIC for each address can make the computer's I/O much faster.
Domino is designed to listen for TCP/IP connections on all NICs in a computer system. If more than one partition is hosting the same service (NRPC, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, LDAP, or HTTP), fine-tune which partitions listen for which connections by associating each service's TCP port with a specific IP address.
As an alternative to using a separate NIC for each IP address, you can use a single NIC and still assign a separate IP address to each partition.
If you are unable to assign a separate IP address to each partition, you can use port mapping.
Note: As an alternative to port mapping, you can use port address translation (PAT), in which a firewall redirects the TCP port connection to a different TCP port. Both port mapping and PAT require advanced skills to implement correctly.
Parent topic: Advanced Domino TCP/IP configurations
Related concepts Domino and networks
Related tasks Binding an NRPC port to an IP address Binding an Internet service to an IP address Assigning separate IP addresses to partitions on a system with a single NIC Configuring a partitioned server for one IP address and port mapping