A server administrator needs to assign two IP addresses to the same interface, eth0, on a RHEL 8 system. The configuration must be persistent and managed by NetworkManager. Which approach is correct?

Use the ip addr add command and add it to /etc/rc.local.

Create a second connection profile for eth0:1 and assign the second IP to it.

Use nmcli to modify the connection and add a second IP address to the same connection profile.

Edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and add IPADDR1 and PREFIX1.

Which command is used to remove a specific IP address from an interface?

ip addr del 192.168.1.2/24 dev eth0

Which of the following is a limitation of IP aliases compared to using 'ip addr add' to assign multiple addresses?

IP aliases cannot be used for routing or policy routing

IP aliases cannot have different netmasks

IP aliases are deprecated and may not be supported by all tools

IP aliases are not supported by the ip command

On a Debian/Ubuntu system, which file is used to define a bonding interface with static IP configuration?

/etc/network/interfaces.d/bond0

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0

LPI LPIC-2:Linux Engineer (201-450)

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205.2 Advanced Network Configuration (weight: 4) LPIC-2 Practice Questions (Page 1)

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A server administrator needs to assign two IP addresses to the same interface, eth0, on a RHEL 8 system. The configuration must be persistent and managed by NetworkManager. Which approach is correct?
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Which tool is commonly used on modern Ubuntu systems to persist network configuration?
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Which command is used to remove a specific IP address from an interface?
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Which of the following is a limitation of IP aliases compared to using 'ip addr add' to assign multiple addresses?
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On a Debian/Ubuntu system, which file is used to define a bonding interface with static IP configuration?
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