CentOS 8 add second IP-address / alias

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Sometimes you need to add an alias on the interface. In CentOS 8 add second IP can be done in several ways.

1 ifconfig
2 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/

Adding an alias with ifconfig

To get started, let’s look at the available interfaces in the system using ifconfig:

# ifconfig
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.88.17  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.88.255
        inet6 fe80::596e:2b87:da14:f0e8  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether 00:15:5d:57:a3:0e  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 110694  bytes 148771849 (141.8 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 1  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 41723  bytes 4715357 (4.4 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 65536
        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
        inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10<host>
        loop  txqueuelen 1000  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 48  bytes 6672 (6.5 KiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 48  bytes 6672 (6.5 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

In the example, this is eth0. To add a second IP address to CentOS 8 via ifconfig, just run the command:

ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.88.150 netmask 255.255.255.0 up

where eth0 – interface
:0 – number of alias
192.168.88.150 – IP
255.255.255.0 – mask

Check with ifconfig:

# ifconfig
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.88.17  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.88.255
        inet6 fe80::596e:2b87:da14:f0e8  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether 00:15:5d:57:a3:0e  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 110937  bytes 148795841 (141.9 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 1  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 41821  bytes 4728135 (4.5 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

eth0:0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.88.150  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.88.255
        ether 00:15:5d:57:a3:0e  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)

To remove an alias, just down the interface (not eth0, but eth0: 0!):

ifconfig eth0:0 down

It should be noted that with this you may in CentOS 8 add second IP address, but it is not saved and after the system reboot the alias will disappear. To avoid this, we will use the second method.

CentOS 8 add second IP through the configuration file

By analogy with the main interface, we create a configuration file for the alias:

nano /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0

And configure the settings:

DEVICE=eth0:0
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=192.168.88.150
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
ONBOOT=yes

In order to raise the alias, you must run the command:

ifconfig eth0 up

Yes, it is the main interface. When trying to run ifup eth0: 0 we get an error:

Error: unknown connection '/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0'.

By executing ifconfig eth0 up and ifconfig eth0 down && ifconfig eth0 up you can control / reload the interfaces. But I couldn’t manage separately eth0:0. If anyone knows how – write in the comments.

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