[ale] vips in rhel/centos 7

[Michael Still]

To do "VIPs" on linux where the box is doing something behind a load
balancer then I think you may want to add the IP as a loopback via 'ip addr
add'. I'm not actually 100% sure what the best thing to do on rhel is
though. Haven't needed to mess with this stuff in a while...


On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at dsservices.com>
wrote:

>   Did you do the setup using the config tool or did you do it by editing
> a file from command line?
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> Haven’t done it on RHEL7 yet but on later versions of RHEL6 it was using
> the Network Manager rather than the network to do configurations and I
> noticed that alias IPs (along with the primary IP) had to be configured in
> the main ifcfg-eth0 file in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts rather than in a
> separate ifcfg-eth0:1 file as they did previously.   In RHEL6 we disabled
> Network Manager to return to previous functionality mainly because we
> couldn’t see the aliases with the old tool (there was a newer one to see
> them but it annoyed others).
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> My note at the time said:
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> You can’t see the aliases with ifconfig but can with nm-tool
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> This link is the one I found that helped me and I added comments when I
> worked on it that may be helpful:
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> https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/32652
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> *From:* ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] *On Behalf Of *Jim
> Kinney
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 30, 2014 12:09 PM
> *To:* Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
> *Subject:* [ale] vips in rhel/centos 7
>
>
>
> Anyone running virtual IPs in RHEL/Centos 7? I set up a new desktop and
> did my usual eth0 -> eth0:1 vip setup (OK so it's enp0s25 -> enp0s25:1) and
> a restarting of NetworkManager shows no new virtual interface.
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