CentOS IP alias

This is for the configuration of IP alias on CentOS 7.
The server IP is 5.135.151.44
The IP alias is 176.31.176.61

The changes will be made at:

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/

We will first look to copy the current interface of "ifcfg-eth0" with:

sudo cp /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0

The new interface will be known as eth0:0

I prefer to use nano as my editing tool. By default CentOS doesn't install it. We will install it manually with:

yum install nano

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: mirror.bbln.org
 * extras: centos.mirrors.ovh.net
 * updates: centos.mirrors.ovh.net
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package nano.x86_64 0:2.3.1-10.el7 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

================================================================================
 Package        Arch             Version                   Repository      Size
================================================================================
Installing:
 nano           x86_64           2.3.1-10.el7              base           440 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install  1 Package

Total download size: 440 k
Installed size: 1.6 M
Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
Downloading packages:
nano-2.3.1-10.el7.x86_64.rpm                               | 440 kB   00:00     
Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Running transaction
  Installing : nano-2.3.1-10.el7.x86_64                                     1/1 
  Verifying  : nano-2.3.1-10.el7.x86_64                                     1/1 

Installed:
  nano.x86_64 0:2.3.1-10.el7                                                    
Complete!

Now we edit the file eth0:0, it will have the following content

DEVICE="eth0:0"
BOOTPROTO="static"
IPADDR="176.31.176.61"
ONBOOT="yes"
BROADCAST="176.31.176.61"

To enable the interface we will use ifup eth0:0
This will give us the following ifconfig:

eth0: flags=4163  mtu 1500
        inet 5.135.151.44  netmask 255.255.252.0  broadcast 5.135.151.255
        inet6 fe80::250:56ff:fe01:929  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20
        ether 00:50:56:01:09:29  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 12383  bytes 963676 (941.0 KiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 322  bytes 35753 (34.9 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

eth0:0: flags=4163  mtu 1500
        inet 176.31.176.61  netmask 255.255.0.0  broadcast 176.31.176.61
        ether 00:50:56:01:09:29  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)

lo: flags=73  mtu 65536
        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
        inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10
        loop  txqueuelen 0  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

There appears to be an issue upon rebooting the server as eth0:0 doesn't come back up. At the moment we would issue the command ifup eth0:0 upon rebooting the server.