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I just installed Debian Wheezy on my homeserver. I want to assign 2 ip's to it on the same network interface, 1 static ip (eth0) and 1 dynamic ip (eth0:1). I know it doesn't make much sense but I need it to test something.

I edited my /etc/network/interfaces to be like this:

auto lo eth0 eth0:1
iface lo inet loopback

iface eth0 inet static
     address 192.168.178.240
     network 192.168.178.0
     netmask 255.255.255.0
     broadcast 192.168.178.255
     gateway 192.168.178.1


iface eth0:1 inet dhcp

when I bring up eth0:1 (ifup eth0:1) I get the following error (eth0 works fine)

Bind socket to interface: No such device

Failed to bring up eth0:1.

is it even possible to have a dynamic and static ip on the same network adapter?

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You might try:

iface eth0 inet dhcp
post-up /sbin/ip addr add 192.168.178.240/24 dev eth0
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  • Looks like that worked, thx!
    – David
    Dec 2, 2012 at 18:53
  • @David what's the output of ifconfig now that it works? Put it somewhere to something like pastebin.com.
    – ott--
    Dec 2, 2012 at 19:10
  • @ott pastebin.com/raw.php?i=Ax4rvgMa It doesn't show the static ip but I can ssh to the server via both ip's
    – David
    Dec 2, 2012 at 20:13
  • @David that only shows eth0. A simple ifconfig without parameters would show eth0:0 and others too.
    – ott--
    Dec 2, 2012 at 20:18
  • Using /sbin/ip adds secondary IPs directly to an interface, which ifconfig doesn't know how to deal with for IPv4 addresses. (The alias-interface style -- eth0:0 -- and the ifconfig utility are deprecated.) '/sbin/ip addr show' will list all the IPs on the interface.
    – techieb0y
    Dec 2, 2012 at 21:49

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