Adding More IPs to a Netcard on Linux

Question

How do I add more IP addresses to a network card on Linux? Do I use the route command?

It's Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS.

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score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 02 '11 at 01:58

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You can use the new style:

ip address add 192.168.10.0/24 dev eth0

Or the old style:

ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.10.0 netmask 255.255.255.0

answered Jun 02 '11 at 01:58

Mircea Vutcovici

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chocripple · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-03T00:48:15.003

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do you mean you want to add secondary ip ?

   $ sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces
     auto eth0
     iface eth0 inet static
      address x.x.x.x
      netmask x.x.x.x
      network x.x.x.x
      gateway x.x.x.x
      broadcast x.x.x.x

     auto eth0:1
      iface eth0:1 inet static
      address x.x.x.x
      netmask x.x.x.x
      network x.x.x.x
      broadcast x.x.x.x

   $ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

edited Jun 03 '11 at 00:48

answered Jun 02 '11 at 01:55

chocripple

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Can you expand on this? I mean, what about the changes I need to do to whatever else is already in /etc/network/interfaces by default? – ServerChecker Jun 02 '11 at 18:49
on /etc/network/interfaces, the default is only 1 device (eth0/etch1/ethX) so you need to add more if you want to add secondary ip, i updated the sample above. – chocripple Jun 03 '11 at 00:46

Adding More IPs to a Netcard on Linux

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