Adding range of IPs via network-scripts not working

[hendr1]

Hello everyone,
In centos 7 I was able to create a file "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0-range0" and it would allow me to assign multiple ip addresses permanently to the network device. This doesn't seem to work any more...

Start with eth0 output of /sbin/ifconfig

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eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet ****removed***  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast ****removed***
        inet6 ****removed***  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether ****removed***  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 469639  bytes 53769807 (51.2 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 60  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 783169  bytes 931699519 (888.5 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
        device memory 0xdf960000-df97ffff

Sample attempt example :

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IPADDR_START=removed
IPADDR_END=removed
CLONENUM_START=0

I added prefix (warning still always appears), type, device, onboot values (and probably others) without the system assigning the ip addresses. It seems like it is trying to load the file as a connection.

This is network log output

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9879.7394] ifcfg-rh: loading "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0-range0" fails: File '/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0-range0' had neither TYPE nor DEVICE keys.
9879.7398] ifcfg-rh:     missing PREFIX, assuming ****removed***/24
9879.7407] ifcfg-rh: new connection /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (53bc873d-4d0d-4deb-a594-932d03acdfde,"eth0")
9879.7416] ifcfg-rh: new connection /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eno1 (2363e204-3ae4-4f0d-a3cb-fa572736e9f1,"eno1")
9879.7423] ifcfg-rh: new connection /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth2 (18a0adc8-2f60-4f71-b98b-b264cc48ff60,"eth2")
9879.7431] ifcfg-rh: new connection /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth3 (d8d81606-ff51-489f-a141-068861176bd8,"eth3")

Another example

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DEVICE=eth0
IPADDR_START=removed
IPADDR_END=removed
PREFIX=32
CLONENUM_START=0

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0911.5365] ifcfg-rh: loading "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0-range0" fails: ipv4.addresses: this property cannot be empty for 'method=manual'
0911.5366] ifcfg-rh:     missing PREFIX, assuming ****removed***/24

[TrevorH]

RHEL/CentOS 8 now uses NetworkManager for everything and I am not sure if it supports range files. I think it doesn't...

[jlehtone]

A script?

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for X in <addresses>
do sudo nmcli con mod eth0 +ipv4.addresses "${X}"
done

How you get from <range> to <addresses> ... I'm sure you can come up with something.