How to setup IP alias on bridged interface in Ubuntu
- by Anonymouslemming
How do I setup an IP alias on a bridge (br0) device on Ubuntu ?
If I wait for br0 to come up and then do
/sbin/ifconfig br0:0 192.168.10.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
then it works fine.
If however I add the following to my /etc/network/interfaces file, it does not work and the network fails to start:
auto br0:0
iface br0:0 inet static
address 192.168.10.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
At the moment, I have a script in /etc/network/if-up.d/bridge_alias that does this as follows:
#!/bin/bash
if [ "${LOGICAL}" == "br0" ] && [ "${PHASE}" = "post-up" ]; then
echo -n "Starting br0:0 ... "
/sbin/ifconfig br0:0 192.168.10.2 netmask 255.255.255.0
echo "Done!"
fi
What is the right way of doing this though, just using the OS network config files ?
