IP address alias assigned by DHCP

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I would like to create several aliases to eth0, but have the addresses assigned by DHCP instead of being set to static IP's. Is this even possible? All the examples I've seen assign a static IP using the command:

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ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.1.11 up

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Fix for: IP address alias assigned by DHCP

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This is only possible if the two DHCP clients use different MAC addresses. Which means they cannot run both on the same physical network interface, which has a single MAC address. The solution is Linux's virtual MAC-VLAN network interfaces. MAC-VLAN…

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