# Listening on multiple (but not all) interfaces?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/listening-on-multiple-but-not-all-interfaces/66139
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** packetbeat
**Created:** [November 15, 2016, 5:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/listening-on-multiple-but-not-all-interfaces/66139 "2016-11-15T17:31:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@gyre](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gyre)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2016, 5:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/listening-on-multiple-but-not-all-interfaces/66139/1 "2016-11-15T17:31:22Z")
Folks, is it possible to listen on more than one, but not all interfaces on Linux? I've tried naming the interfaces as an array... as a comma or space separated list. Neither works.
At the moment, I'm running multiple packetbeat instances, each with a different config file, one for each interface.
Thanks!
-- gyre --
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### Author:  [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2016, 12:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/listening-on-multiple-but-not-all-interfaces/66139/2 "2016-11-16T00:17:58Z")
Listening on multiple interfaces (besides `all`) is not currently possible.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2016, 12:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/listening-on-multiple-but-not-all-interfaces/66139/3 "2016-12-14T00:18:15Z")
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