Create Multiple Ip Addresses To One Single Network Interface

The concept of creating or configuring multiple IP addresses on a single network interface is called IP aliasing
aliasing. IP
aliasing is very useful for setting up multiple virtual sites on Apache using one single network interface with different
IP addresses on a single subnet network.
The main advantage of using this IP aliasing is, you dont need to have a physical adapter attached to each IP
IP, but
instead you can create multiple or many virtual interfaces (aliases
aliases) to a single physical card.
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Create Multiple IP Addresses in One NiC
The instructions given here are applies to all major Linux distributions like Red Hat
Hat, Fedora
Fedora, and CentOS
CentOS. Creating
multiple interfaces and assign IP address to it manually is a daunting task. Here well see how we can assign IP address
to it defining a set of IP range. Also understand how we are going to create a virtual interface and assign different
range of IP Address to an interface in one go. In this article we used LAN IP
IPss, so replace those with ones you will be
using.
Creating Virtual Interface and Assign Multiple IP Addresses

Here I have an interface called ifcfg-eth0
ifcfg-eth0, the default interface for the Ethernet device. If youve attached second
Ethernet device, then there would be an ifcfg-eth1
ifcfg-eth1 device and so on for each device youve attached. These device
network files are located in /etc/
/etc/sysconfig/
sysconfig/network-scripts/
network-scripts/ directory. Navigate to the directory and do ls
ls -l
-l to list
all devices.
# cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
# ls -l
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Sample Output
ifcfg-eth0
ifcfg-lo
ifdown
ifdown-bnep
ifdown-eth
ifdown-ippp
ifdown-ipv6
ifdown-isdn
ifdown-post
ifdown-ppp
ifdown-routes
ifdown-sit
ifdown-tunnel
ifup
ifup-aliases
ifup-bnep
ifup-eth
ifup-ippp
ifup-ipv6
ifup-isdn
ifup-plip
ifup-plusb
ifup-post
ifup-ppp
ifup-routes
ifup-sit
ifup-tunnel
ifup-wireless
init.ipv6-global
net.hotplug
network-functions
network-functions-ipv6
Lets assume that we want to create three additional virtual interfaces to bind three IP addresses (172.16.16.126
172.16.16.126,
172.16.16.127
172.16.16.127, and 172.16.16.128
172.16.16.128) to the NIC
NIC. So, we need to create three additional alias files, while ifcfg-eth0
ifcfg-eth0 keeps
the same primary IP address. This is how we moving forward to setup three aliases to bind the following IP addresses.
Adapter
IP Address
Type
------------------------------------------------eth0
172.16.16.25
Primary
eth0:0
172.16.16.26
Alias 1
eth0:1
172.16.16.27
Alias 2
eth0:2
172.16.16.28
Alias 3
Where :X
:X is the device (interface
interface) number to create the aliases for interface eth0
eth0. For each alias you must assign a
number sequentially. For example, we copying existing parameters of interface ifcfg-eth0
ifcfg-eth0 in virtual interfaces called
ifcfg-eth0:0
ifcfg-eth0:0, ifcfg-eth0:1 and ifcfg-eth0:2
ifcfg-eth0:2. Go into the network directory and create the files as shown below.
#
#
#
#
cd
cp
cp
cp
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
ifcfg-eth0 ifcfg-eth0:0
Open a file ifcfg-eth0

ifcfg-eth0 and view the contents.
[root@tecmint network-scripts]# vi ifcfg-eth0

DEVICE="eth0"
BOOTPROTO=static
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE="Ethernet"
IPADDR=172.16.16.125
NETMASK=255.255.255.224
GATEWAY=172.16.16.100
HWADDR=00:0C:29:28:FD:4C
Here we only need two parameters (DEVICE

DEVICE and IPADDR
IPADDR). So, open each file with VI editor and rename the DEVICE
name to its corresponding alias and change the IPADDR address. For example, open files ifcfg-eth0:0
ifcfg-eth0:0, ifcfg-eth0:1
ifcfg-eth0:1
and ifcfg-eth0:2
ifcfg-eth0:2 using VI editor and change both the parameters. Finally it will look similar to below.
ifcfg-eth0:0
DEVICE="eth0:0"
BOOTPROTO=static
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE="Ethernet"
IPADDR=172.16.16.126
NETMASK=255.255.255.224
GATEWAY=172.16.16.100
ifcfg-eth0:1
DEVICE="eth0:1"
BOOTPROTO=static
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE="Ethernet"
IPADDR=172.16.16.127
NETMASK=255.255.255.224
GATEWAY=172.16.16.100
ifcfg-eth0:2
DEVICE="eth0:2"
BOOTPROTO=static
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE="Ethernet"
IPADDR=172.16.16.128
NETMASK=255.255.255.224
GATEWAY=172.16.16.100
Once, youve made all changes, save all your changes and restart/start the network service for the changes to reflect.
[root@tecmint network-scripts]# /etc/init.d/network restart
To verify all the aliases (virtual interface) are up and running, you can use ifconfig
ifconfig or ip
ip command.
[root@tecmint network-scripts]# ifconfig

eth0
Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:28:FD:4C
inet addr:172.16.16.125 Bcast:172.16.16.100 Mask:255.255.255.224
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe28:fd4c/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:237 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:198 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:25429 (24.8 KiB) TX bytes:26910 (26.2 KiB)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0x2000
eth0:0

eth0:1

eth0:2

Ping each of them from different machine. If everything setup correctly, you will get a ping response from each of
them.
ping 172.16.16.126
ping 172.16.16.127
ping 172.16.16.128
Sample Output
[root@tecmint ~]# ping 172.16.16.126
PING 172.16.16.126 (172.16.16.126) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 172.16.16.126: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.33 ms
--- 172.16.16.126 ping statistics --3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2002ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.159/0.552/1.332/0.551 ms

Seems everything working smoothly, With these new IPs you can setup virtual sites in Apache
Apache, FTP accounts and
many other things.
Assign Multiple IP Address Range

If you would like to create a range of Multiple IP Addresses to a particular interface called ifcfg-eth0
ifcfg-eth0, we use ifcfgifcfgeth0-range0
eth0-range0 and copy the contains of ifcfg-eth0 on it as shown below.
[root@tecmint network-scripts]# cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/

[root@tecmint network-scripts]# cp -p ifcfg-eth0 ifcfg-eth0-range0
Now open ifcfg-eth0-range0

ifcfg-eth0-range0 file and add IPADDR_START
IPADDR_START and IPADDR_END
IPADDR_END IP address range as shown below.
[root@tecmint network-scripts]# vi ifcfg-eth0-range0

#DEVICE="eth0"
#BOOTPROTO=none
#NM_CONTROLLED="yes"
#ONBOOT=yes
TYPE="Ethernet"
IPADDR_START=172.16.16.126
IPADDR_END=172.16.16.130
IPV6INIT=no
#GATEWAY=172.16.16.100
Save it and restart/start network service
[root@tecmint network-scripts]# /etc/init.d/network restart
Verify that virtual interfaces are created with IP Address

Address.
[root@tecmint network-scripts]# ifconfig

eth0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe28:fd4c/64 Scope:Link
RX packets:1385 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1249 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:127317 (124.3 KiB) TX bytes:200787 (196.0 KiB)
eth0:0

eth0:1

eth0:2

eth0:3

eth0:4


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The concept of creating or configuring multiple IP addresses on a single network interface is called IP aliasing

<img class="size-full wp-image-3336" alt="Linux IP Aliasing"

Creating Virtual Interface and Assign Multiple IP Addresses

Open a file ifcfg-eth0

[root@tecmint network-scripts]# vi ifcfg-eth0

Here we only need two parameters (DEVICE

[root@tecmint network-scripts]# /etc/init.d/network restart

[root@tecmint network-scripts]# ifconfig

TX packets:198 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:28:FD:4C

Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:28:FD:4C

Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:28:FD:4C

64 bytes from 172.16.16.128: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.165 ms

Assign Multiple IP Address Range

[root@tecmint network-scripts]# cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/

Now open ifcfg-eth0-range0

[root@tecmint network-scripts]# vi ifcfg-eth0-range0

Save it and restart/start network service

[root@tecmint network-scripts]# /etc/init.d/network restart

Verify that virtual interfaces are created with IP Address

[root@tecmint network-scripts]# ifconfig

Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:28:FD:4C

Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:28:FD:4C

Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:28:FD:4C

Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:28:FD:4C

Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:28:FD:4C

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