Re: Aliases

[David Ford]

>
>
>For various reasons interfaces aliases are deprecated.  The recommended
>way of doing things these days is just adding more addresses to an
>interface with the ip(8) program from the iproute package.  It works like:
>
>  ip addr add 192.168.2.0/24 broadcast 192.168.2.255 scope host dev eth0
>

You can shorten this to:

    ip a a 192.168.2.0/24 brd + dev eth0

..and leaving the scope global [by default] which makes it fully reachable.

David