title: Running multiple instances of Cassandra on a single machine by aliasing the IP address?
body: <p>Looking at the configuration for Cassandra I can see that nodes are distinguished by IP address in <code>/apache-cassandra-2.0.3/conf/cassandra.yaml</code>. </p>
  
  <pre><code>cluster_name: ‘VirtualBox Cluster’
  initial_token: 0
  seed_provider:
  - seeds:  "192.168.56.2"
  listen_address: 192.168.56.2
  rpc_address: 0.0.0.0
  endpoint_snitch: RackInferringSnitch
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'd like to run multiple nodes on my MacOSX Mavericks machine (without spinning up virtual machines)</p>
  
  <p>My question is: <strong>Will it work for me to distinguish multiple nodes by creating an IP address alias using <code>ifconfig</code>?</strong> eg</p>
  
  <pre><code>sudo ifconfig en0 alias 192.168.0.101 255.255.255.0
  </code></pre>