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From: David Ford <david@blue-labs.org>
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Subject: Re: Aliases
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>
>
>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