2nd IP address on an interface

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 08/29/2014 01:12 AM, Andre Speelmans wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:35 PM, Lars E. Pettersson <lars at homer.se> wrote:
>> On 08/28/14 22:16, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>> # cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0
>>> [snipped]
>>> ONBOOT="yes"
>> I think you need to add
>> ONPARENT=yes
>> to make it start when its parent does.
> ONPARENT=yes is indeed the parameter instead of ONBOOT for aliases. It
> would not matter here, as "yes" is the default value.
> As far as I am aware the suggestion from Tom Horsley with things like
> IPADDR2, NETMASK2 in the file of the parent is cuurently the preferred
> method. (Not my preferred method, but then perhaps I am just stuck
> with old stuff that I know.) :)

I have been digging into real old configs from systems long gone (like 
back in '08).  I used the ifcfg-ethn.m for vlaning by including 
VLAN=yes, and then 'm' was the vlan number.  And the time back then that 
I ran miredo I used the IPADDR2= method (miredo needs 2 IPv4 addresses).