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Why might we want to assign multiple IP addresses to the same interface? The following are the most common scenarios:

• hosts in the network segment use IP addresses on different networks
• there are not enough host addresses on a logical network segment, suppose a /24 address space and 300 hosts

How to configure multiple IP addresses on Huawei devices?

Let’s configure a pair of routers connected via a Gigabit Ethernet link and use four different logical networks.

[labnarioR1]int gi 0/0/0
[labnarioR1-GigabitEthernet0/0/0]ip add 192.168.12.1 255.255.255.0
[labnarioR1-GigabitEthernet0/0/0]ip add 10.0.12.1 255.255.255.0 sub
[labnarioR1-GigabitEthernet0/0/0]ip add 10.0.22.1 255.255.255.0 sub
[labnarioR1-GigabitEthernet0/0/0]ip add 10.0.32.1 255.255.255.0 sub