Adding A Virtual IP Address In Linux

welcome to webune - today we are going to show you how you can add another ip address to your linux server using the same interface nic card.

its very easy, the first step is to copy the same configurations we have on etho and the new virtual interface we will call eth0:0

so send this command:


now lets open the newly created interface. i will be using nano as my text editor, but you can use vi if you are more familiar with vi


when you first open it it might look like something like this:



now change it to this:


as you can see, i only changed the following:
DEVICE=eth0:0
IPADDR=10.0.0.02

save the changes and restart your network with this command:



or



Done

try pinging your new ip address