Introduction
For the Debian based system
Did you know that you can assign more that one IP address to a single physical network interface? This technique is quite useful, for example when working with Apache and virtual hosts, as it allows you to access same Apache server by using two different IP addresses.
Temporary virtual network interface
ifconfig
check network interface name and then add
Replace enp2s0 as per your network interface name
sudo ifconfig enp2s0:0 219.91.251.164
Making the Interface permanent
These interfaces are temporary that means it will not last after reboot so to make it persistent we need to add it in
sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces
iface eth0:0 inet static
address 219.91.251.164
netmask 255.0.0.0
broadcast 123.255.255.255
For redhat based system
From the above output we can see that currently we have configured eth0 network interface only. Next, we are going to locate a corresponding network interface configuration file for eth0:
# grep -l DEVICE.*eth0 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/*
The configuration file responsible for the eth0 network interface is /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
[[email protected] ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
DEVICE="eth0"
NETBOOT="yes"
HWADDR="08:00:27:15:38:B7"
TYPE="Ethernet"
BOOTPROTO="none"
NAME="eth0"
UUID="462f4834-4fe7-43a7-84e7-83b2722e94c1"
ONBOOT="yes"
IPADDR="10.1.1.110"
NETMASK="255.0.0.0"
GATEWAY="10.1.1.1"
In order to create a virtual network interface we can first copy a master configuration file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and then edit its content to set an appropriate network interface name and IP address:
[[email protected] ~]# cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
[[email protected] ~]# cp ifcfg-eth0 ifcfg-eth0:0
[[email protected] ~]# cp ifcfg-eth0 ifcfg-eth0:1
Next, we need to edit DEVICE, NAME, IPADDR in both virtual network configuration files. Below you can see both edited configuration files:
on Sysvinit
2. Bringing interfaces up/down
Usage:
# ip link set dev <interface> up
# ip link set dev <interface> down
Example:
# ip link set dev eth0 up
# ip link set dev eth0 down