# Configure Aerospike Cluster with nodes multiple Network Cards

**URL:** <https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/configure-aerospike-cluster-with-nodes-multiple-network-cards/1875>\
**Category:** Configuration\
**Created:** [September 18, 2015, 9:12am UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/configure-aerospike-cluster-with-nodes-multiple-network-cards/1875 "2015-09-18T09:12:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 8:20pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/configure-aerospike-cluster-with-nodes-multiple-network-cards/1875/3 "2015-09-24T20:20:26Z")

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access-address will only support 1 IP address. This could be a physical address or a virtual IP address if NAT IP.

> **[Configuration Reference | Aerospike Documentation](https://docs.aerospike.com/server/reference/configuration)**
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> This page lists the configuration parameters that can be

An alternative is not to use access-address. Removing access-adress would allow client requests from eth1-eth3. Not really recommended since tools like asmonitor and asadm would still be able to see the cluster but would show cluster visibility as false.

There is an interesting article on access-address which explains the use of access-address:

> [@Access-address virtual vs dc-int-ext-ipmap for XDR](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/access-address-virtual-vs-dc-int-ext-ipmap-for-xdr/1341):
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> Hi, I wanted to ask if there was any inherent disadvantage of using “access-address (external IP) virtual” in Aerospike nertwork stanza for service config to achieve external/internal IP mapping for XDR configurations? The setup I’m describing runs with multiple clusters over AWS and GCE. The documentation for XDR doesn’t refer to the ‘virtual’ access address as an alternative, but instead a heavy handed approach to defining every possible public/private IP mapping with dc-int-ext-ipmap for re…

Use of RPS and a single IP may be the right way to go:

> **[Aerospike on Amazon EC2 - Recommendations | Aerospike Documentation](https://docs.aerospike.com/deploy_guides/aws/recommendations)**
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> Recommendations for deploying Aerospike on Amazon EC2

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