Not quite. The kernel documentation notes that IP aliasing was the original way to have multiple IPs per interface, but is now obsolete, as multiple IPs are dir

Not quite. The kernel documentation notes that IP aliasing was the original way to have multiple IPs per interface, but is now obsolete, as multiple IPs are directly supported now (and by "now" I mean 2009-ish, with the introduction of iproute2): https://docs.kernel.org/networking/alias.html https://docs.kernel.org/networking/alias.html In addition, the manpage for ip-address makes this clear: > The address is a protocol (IP or IPv6) address attached to a network device. Each device must have at least one address to use the corresponding protocol. It is possible to have several different addresses attached to one device. These addresses are not discriminated, so that the term alias is not quite appropriate for them and we do not use it in this document. https://linux.die.net/man/8/ip https://linux.die.net/man/8/ip