title: How do you use the Cassandra tool sstableloader?
body: <p>I'm trying to use the sstableloader to load data into an existing Cassandra ring, but cant figure out how to actually get it to work.  I'm trying to run it on a machine that has a running cassandra node on it, but when I run it I get an error saying that port 7000 is already in use, which is the port the running Cassandra node is using for gossip.  </p>
  
  <p>So does that mean I can only use sstableloader on a machine that is in the same network as the target cassandra ring, but isn't actually running a cassandra node?  </p>
  
  <p>Any details would be useful, thanks.</p>