ip addr show is showing me two IP address on one interface

Question

I am seeing two IP address on a single interface in a weird way. This is my output of ifconfig -a

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr b8:27:eb:26:b1:c8  
          inet addr:10.0.0.22  Bcast:10.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:456 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:519 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:63643 (62.1 KiB)  TX bytes:111910 (109.2 KiB)

This is my /etc/network/interfaces file output

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet static
        address 10.0.0.22
        subnet  255.255.255.0
        gateway 10.0.0.1

auto eth1
allow-hotplug eth1
iface eth1 inet static
#       address 0
#       subnet  255.255.255.0
#       gateway 192.168.0.2

And this is my output for sudo ip addr show

1: lo: <LOOPBACK> mtu 65536 qdisc noop state DOWN 
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
    link/ether b8:27:eb:26:b1:c8 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 10.0.0.22/8 brd 10.255.255.255 scope global eth0
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet 10.0.0.100/24 brd 10.0.0.255 scope global eth0
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast master ovs-system state UP qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:00:00:00:6c:f8 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 169.254.78.64/16 brd 169.254.255.255 scope global eth1
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

As we can see here eth0 has two ip address and is only shown by ip command and not by ifconfig or /etc/network/interfaces file. I am unable to understand from where this is coming or how to disable the 2nd IP permanently. I would like to get rid of the 2nd IP address permanently.

I have also noticed that this IP comes after a second or so when the system is booted. When I do dmesg I see these are the last few lines-

[   15.270464] device eth1 entered promiscuous mode
[   15.576206] asix 1-1.4:1.0 eth1: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0xCDE1

Answer 1

I had the same issue.

Finally found that in my distro (debian jessie) the static ip is set in the file /etc/dhcpcd.conf and looked like:

 ...
 39 # A hook script is provided to lookup the hostname if not set by the DHCP
 40 # server, but it should not be run by default.
 41 nohook lookup-hostname
 42 ## interface eth0
 43   static ip_address=192.168.1.2/24
 44   static routers=192.168.1.254
 45   static domain_name_servers=192.168.1.254
 46 ## interface eth0
 47   static ip_address=192.168.0.3/24
 48   static routers=192.168.0.1
 49   static domain_name_servers=192.168.0.1

So I've removed that additional record from that file and it fixed that issue permanently.

Hope it will help someone...

Answer 2

Old thread I know but,

eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
    link/ether b8:27:eb:26:b1:c8 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    **inet 10.0.0.22/8** brd 10.255.255.255 scope global eth0
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

    **inet 10.0.0.100/24** brd 10.0.0.255 scope global eth0
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

The request was "How do I get rid of the "10.0.0.100/24" address

This will get rid of it

ip address del 10.0.0.100/24 dev eth0

This will put it back

ip address add 10.0.0.100/24 dev eth0

These are both "non-persistent" so a better question might be what keeps putting that address on your interface

Answer 3

I ran into this same issue.

After trying to set a static IP in my /etc/netplan/99-config.yaml and still not being able to get a network connection (as well as seeing two IP addresses with ip a). I dug around and read that dhcpd could be a possible cause.

cat /etc/dhcpd.conf

Produced:

...
# Generate SLAAC address using the Hardware Address of the interface
#slaac hwaddr
# OR generate Stable Private IPv6 Addresses based from the DUID
slaac private
interface enp3s0
        static ip_address=192.168.0.15/24
        static routers=192.168.0.1
        static domain_name_servers=127.0.0.1

Where I could see that for some reason I had set a static IP in /etc/dhcpd.conf.

So I removed those lines and I finally was able to establish a network connection, and ip a showing just the single the static IP I had set in /etc/netplan/99-config.yaml.

Answer 4

A whois query on that IP address shows:

WHOIS results for 169.254.78.64
NetRange:       169.254.0.0 - 169.254.255.255
CIDR:           169.254.0.0/16
NetName:        LINKLOCAL-RFC3927-IANA-RESERVED
NetHandle:      NET-169-254-0-0-1
Parent:         NET169 (NET-169-0-0-0-0)
NetType:        IANA Special Use
OriginAS:
Organization:   Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
RegDate:        1998-01-27
Updated:        2014-01-09
Comment:        Computers use addresses starting with "169.254." when they do not have a manually configured address or when they are not told which address to use by a service on the network.  They are commonly called the "link local" addresses.
Comment:
Comment:        Routers are not allowed to forward packets sent from an IPv4 "link local" address, so they are always used by a directly connected device.
Comment:
Comment:        These addresses were assigned by the IETF, the organization that develops Internet protocols, in the Standards Track document, RFC3927, which can be found at:
Comment:        http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc3927
Ref:            http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-169-254-0-0-1

so it's not a big problem. The interface is promiscuous, which means it will receive ALL packets.

To see which processes have it open, man lsof, sudo lsof /dev/eth1 will help.