# Can filebeat specify which ip to send data

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-filebeat-specify-which-ip-to-send-data/195165>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [August 14, 2019, 8:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-filebeat-specify-which-ip-to-send-data/195165 "2019-08-14T08:52:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Yanchun](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yanchun/32/35596_2.png) [@Yanchun](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Yanchun)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2019, 8:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-filebeat-specify-which-ip-to-send-data/195165/1 "2019-08-14T08:52:17Z")

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My host has two IPs( i.e two network cards), can I configure filebeat to send data to the output(such as kafka) with one of the IP?

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**Author:** ![Debashis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/debashis/32/45290_2.png) [@Debashis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Debashis)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 9:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-filebeat-specify-which-ip-to-send-data/195165/2 "2019-08-19T09:26:22Z")

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No such configuration is available regarding this.

Which version of Filebeat are you using? and for what kind of requirement you are looking for this configuration?

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**Author:** ![Yanchun](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yanchun/32/35596_2.png) [@Yanchun](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Yanchun)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 10:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-filebeat-specify-which-ip-to-send-data/195165/3 "2019-08-19T10:37:44Z")

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@Debashis Thanks for the rely. My filebeat is 6.4.3. Our customers worry about filebeat will impact the business, so they want to filebeat send data with a separate network card.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 10:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-filebeat-specify-which-ip-to-send-data/195165/4 "2019-09-16T10:37:48Z")

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