adding an addition lo interface?

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#1

how can I go about adding an additional lo interface, like lo:0? I need to create this interface, give it an IP and set it to not arp, so this box can be behind a load balancer.

Just copying ifcfg-lo and changing the requisite attributes did not work, got an error saying “Interface lo:0 is not available”. Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

Stewart At UGA

#2

the command line:
ifconfig lo:0 128.192.126.197 netmask 255.255.255.255 -arp up

give me what I want, but I want it to persist across reboots. Thanks.

Stewart At UGA

#3

stewharr wrote:

>
> the command line:
> ifconfig lo:0 128.192.126.197 netmask 255.255.255.255 -arp up
>
> give me what I want, but I want it to persist across reboots. Thanks…

Amend /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-lo.

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