Thanks for clarifying that first ip will be used as primary ip. I have 2 further queries on this. 1. How can this survive across reboots without having a custom script on boot up? Like some ifcfg file,etc. 2. is there a way to tell to make a given ip as primary, irrespective of order?
On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 5:35 PM, Michal Kubecek <mkube...@suse.cz> wrote: > On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 02:35:41PM +0530, Akshat Kakkar wrote: >> I am having a bridge named br0 having ports eno1 and eno2 as members. >> I have given IP to br0 as 10.10.10.1/24 >> >> Now I want to create alias on br0 as br0:1 and give IP as >> 10.10.10.2/24, but I am unable to. >> >> I know, we can add multiple IPs to br0 using "ip addr" command, but I >> dont want to do it that way as I want all outgoing connections from >> br0 to take src ip as 10.10.10.1. I know by providing option of "src" >> in all routes, things can work but this looks more like a hack and >> less of a solution. > > I don't understand. There are no actual aliases since kernel 2.2 and an > attempt to add "br0:1 with address 10.10.10.2/24" using ifconfig should > result in the same configuration as > > ip addr add 10.10.10.2/24 brd + label br0:1 dev br0 > > where the "label br0:1" part only adds a label which allows ifconfig to > see the new address. > > As both addresses share the same range, you don't even have to worry > about source address as primary address (10.10.10.1 - or first one added > in general) will be used unless specified otherwise. > > Michal Kubecek
