{"id":15584,"date":"2018-08-13T21:26:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T21:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.taragana.com\/?p=15584"},"modified":"2018-10-14T12:18:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T12:18:43","slug":"ovh-how-to-add-additional-ip-addresses-ip-alias-on-ubuntu-16-04-18-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.taragana.com\/ovh-how-to-add-additional-ip-addresses-ip-alias-on-ubuntu-16-04-18-04-15584","title":{"rendered":"OVH: How to add Additional IP Addresses (IP Alias) on Ubuntu 16.04 \/ 18.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adding additional IP addresses in OVH is rather unconventional and the guide they point to in their mail is non-existent. The <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.ovh.com\/gb\/en\/dedicated\/network-ipaliasing\">process<\/a>, fortunately, is simple:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>ssh to the server as root<\/li>\n<li>\n<pre>cd \/etc\/systemd\/network\/<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<pre>vi *-default.network<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>Add the new IP address after the original IPv4 Address\n<pre><span class=\"nv\">DHCP<\/span><span class=\"o\">=<\/span>no\n<span class=\"nv\">Address<\/span><span class=\"o\">=<\/span>Main_IP\/24\n<span class=\"nv\">Address<\/span><span class=\"o\">=<\/span><strong>Failover_IP\/32<\/strong><\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>Save and close the file<\/li>\n<li>Reboot the server<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>You should now be able to ssh to the server using the new IP Address (which OVH likes to call Failover IP Address) in addition to the old one.<br \/>\nRepeat the process for any additional IP addresses.<br \/>\nNote: I have tested it on two different OVH Servers (in France &amp; Canada) for Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 18.04.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adding additional IP addresses in OVH is rather unconventional and the guide they point to in their mail is non-existent. The process, fortunately, is simple: ssh to the server as root cd \/etc\/systemd\/network\/ vi *-default.network Add the new IP address after the original IPv4 Address DHCP=no Address=Main_IP\/24 Address=Failover_IP\/32 Save and close the file Reboot the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[39,78,109],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.taragana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.taragana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.taragana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.taragana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.taragana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.taragana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15817,"href":"https:\/\/blog.taragana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15584\/revisions\/15817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.taragana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.taragana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.taragana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}