Can two applications listen to the same port?

Question

Can two applications on the same machine bind to the same port and IP address? Taking it a step further, can one app listen to requests coming from a certain IP and the othe

Answer 1

Another way is use a program listening in one port that analyses the kind of traffic (ssh, https, etc) it redirects internally to another port on which the "real" service is listening.

For example, for Linux, sslh: https://github.com/yrutschle/sslh